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Pull up stakes
verb
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Definitions
1.
verb
To prepare to move one's (usually temporary) habitation, especially rapidly.
"They just pulled up stakes and left."
Synonyms
up sticks
break camp
take one's hook
move house
skedaddle
hitch up
jump ship
make a move
pull away
rustle up
hightail
storm out of the blocks
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