pull up stakes
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[edit]pull up stakes (third-person singular simple present pulls up stakes, present participle pulling up stakes, simple past and past participle pulled up stakes)
- (idiomatic) To prepare to move one's (usually temporary) habitation, especially rapidly.
- They just pulled up stakes and left.
- 2006 November 30, Paul Solotaroff, “Can Nate Ybanez Ever Be FORGIVEN?”, in Rolling Stone, pages 84–128:
- From the start of their strange and embattled marriage, they established a pattern of suddenly pulling up stakes with little notice to family members or neighbors.
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[edit]prepare to move one's habitation
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