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pull up stakes

verb

Definitions

  1. To prepare to move one's (usually temporary) habitation, especially rapidly.

    • They just pulled up stakes and left.
    • 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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