put down roots
Make somewhere home
To put down roots is to establish oneself in a place or community, settling in with the intention of staying.
The metaphor comes from plants, which must root themselves to grow and thrive.
Someone who puts down roots typically buys property, builds relationships, and commits to a location: After years of moving around, she finally put down roots in Portland.
- settleReach final terms
- establishCreate formally, permanently
- stake a claimAssert ownership of something
- set up shopBegin conducting business
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
belonging · engrain · generations · legacy · integrate · intertwine · entrench · homestead · permanence · long haul · seed · acclimate · home · call home · assimilate · foundation · nest · grow
- movingmoving, moving truck, move out, move in, movers
- settle downrelax, chill out, cool off, mellow out, marry
- gardening termsgrowing, blooming, wilting, pruning, grafting
- adaptadapt, adjust, acclimate, accommodate, accustom
- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, put the cart before the horse, till the cows come home, buy the farm
- settle meaningsagree, compromise, reconcile, negotiate, decide