- pull up stakes
- verbremove oneself from an association with or participation in-
She wants to leave
-The teenager left home
-She left her position with the Red Cross
-He left the Senate after two terms
-after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes
• Hypernyms: ↑change• Hyponyms: ↑leave office, ↑quit, ↑step down, ↑resign, ↑drop out• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s
-Somebody ——s something
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phrasalsee pull stakes* * *
pull up stakesTo prepare to leave a place• • •Main Entry: ↑pull* * *
move or go to live elsewhere* * *
pull up stakesUS informal : to leave your job or homeHer career was going nowhere, so she decided it was time to pull up stakes.
• • •Main Entry: ↑stake* * *
ˌpull up ˈstakes idiom
Useful english dictionary. 2012.