pull up stakes
Leave for good
To pull up stakes is to leave a place, especially to relocate permanently.
The image is of removing tent stakes before moving on.
After twenty years in Chicago, they pulled up stakes and moved to Arizona.
The phrase suggests uprooting an established life rather than casual travel.
- pack upPrepare belongings for departure
- load upFill with cargo
- decampDepart abruptly, often secretly
- up sticksLeave hastily, relocate
- leaveSanctioned time away
departure · move · move on · clear out · break camp · uproot · relocate · quit · pack it in · resettle · hit the road · beat it · transplant · migrate · make tracks · head out · cut ties · burn bridges
pull up stakessettle down
Become calm or established
put down roots · plant roots · take up residence · nest · dig in
pull up stakesstay put
Remain in place
remain · stick around · hold fast · stand pat · hunker down
pull up stakescommit
Bind to a course
invest · double down · buy in · stake a claim · bed down
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