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Meaning of "pull up stakes" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PULL UP STAKES

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PULL UP STAKES

pull on
pull one´s punches
pull one´s socks up
pull one´s weight
pull oneself together
pull out
pull out all the stops
pull over
pull rank
pull someone´s leg
pull strings
pull the plug on
pull the rug out from under
pull the strings
pull the wool over someone´s eyes
pull through
pull together
pull up
pull wires
pull your head in

WORDS THAT END LIKE PULL UP STAKES

ABS brakes
antilock brakes
Chrissakes
cornflakes
ducks and drakes
go like hot cakes
Great Lakes
high stakes
in the popularity/beauty stakes
jakes
kidstakes
Lakes
Lower Lakes
no great shakes
nursery stakes
raise the stakes
stakes
sweepstakes
the shakes
wakes

Synonyms and antonyms of pull up stakes in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pull up stakes» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PULL UP STAKES

Find out the translation of pull up stakes to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pull up stakes from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pull up stakes» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

撤股
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

levantar el campamento
570 millions of speakers

English

pull up stakes
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दांव को खींच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سحب ما يصل حصص
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

смотать удочки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

puxar para cima estacas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দালাল আপ টান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

retireront
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tarik kepentingan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pull-up- Beteiligungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

賭け金を引き上げ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지분을 끌어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Narik taruhan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kéo lên cổ phần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பங்குகளை இழுக்கவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दंड काढा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kazık atmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tirare su pali
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podciągnąć stawki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

змотати вудочки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trage mize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τραβήξτε μέχρι διακύβευμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

trek penne
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dra upp insatserna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trekke opp innsatsen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pull up stakes

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PULL UP STAKES»

The term «pull up stakes» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.035 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PULL UP STAKES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pull up stakes

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PULL UP STAKES»

Discover the use of pull up stakes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pull up stakes and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pulling Up Stakes: Stepping Into Freedom
On a High Sierra packtrip with her husband and their six llamas, psychologist Harriet Wrye felt a millennial call to pull up stakes in her life, as she did with tent stakes and llama stakes each day as they moved along the trail.
Harriet Kimble Wrye, 2012
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Holy Bible - Kj3 Literal Translation
Trumpets to signal; pulling up stakes Numbers 10 the tabernacle, to remain over it, the sons of Israel remained in camp, and did not pull up stakes. And when it was lifted up, they pulled up stakes. 23 By the mouth of Jehovah they encamped,  ...
‎2010
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New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
pull up stakes npon my own land, or upon my own farm." Defendant was pulling up stakes in what appeared to be a piece of land set off nn:! stakes stuck there. The land was a burial ground, as I have been told ; I have never been to a funeral  ...
New York (State). Court of Appeals., 1852
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Idioms in the News - 1,000 Phrases, Real Examples
Pull up stakes has almost an opposite meaning — to leave a place — but it alludes to a different kind of stakes: large wooden poles, sharpened at the top, that were used to keep enemies out. Examples of similar phrases have been found as ...
Peter Bengelsdorf
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The Holy Bible: Urim-Thummim Version
105 When you blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the eastern quadrant will pull up stakes.1°16 When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the southern quadrant will pull up stakes, they will blow an alarm for ...
Dallas James, 2001
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The Alpha Parchments
10:5 When you blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the eastern quadrant will pull up stakes. 10:6 When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the southern quadrant will pull up stakes, they will blow an alarm for ...
Dallas James, 2000
7
Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
... Interposition, 287: Since that Fatal Day ... all things within this County is at a Stake. Cf. NED Stake sb.1 2. 5402 To pluck (pull) up Stakes 1640 TLechford in Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society 7(1885) 275: I ... am plucking up ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
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Al Majaz:
ijSli ^ <..ui (i.jj) pull up stakes ^ i^bw cjauj Gaza settler, warned to pull up stakes, plan to dig in. ji 4T^L> ji 4j_yL.i ji Aiflj^t j^ rJlflJ (J*<Jl ^Jj 4-ob1) Ailji ^jUil |f 01 Jbu i»^P yt^^o. .iji; «UJi jj^j 4t!A>-^'L| pull up one 's socks pull one 's socks up Pull ...
Wahab Alansari, 2005
9
Common Phrases: And Where They Come From
The settlers of the American West who, in their covered-wagon trips across our continent, lived briefly like the ancient nomads popularized the phrase “pull up stakes” throughout America. Land-Office Business When we want to describe a ...
Myron Korach, John Mordock
10
A2Z Books of World Origins
The expression "pull up stakes" is an allusion to the camper who "pulls up" thetent pegs or "stakes" ashe strikes his tent. Puppy. Where does theword "puppy " come from? From the French poupee, meaning "doll." By extension, it means any ...
Terry O'Brien, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PULL UP STAKES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pull up stakes is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tent City 4 to pull up stakes and leave area July 11
Having been camped out on the edge of Issaquah since March 14, the homeless encampment Tent City 4 is leaving the area July 11, said Sam Roberson, camp ... «Issaquah Press, Jul 15»
2
What if 'Veep' elects to leave?
In three seasons, "Veep" has vacuumed up $13.9 million in tax credits but could be gone tomorrow. Rare is the employer that can pull up stakes quite that fast ... «Baltimore Sun, Jun 15»
3
Farmer Brothers latest South Bay company to pull up stakes, some …
Farmer Brothers, a 103-year-old company that provides coffee to restaurant chains throughout the nation, will become the next to leave the South Bay for a more ... «The Daily Breeze, Feb 15»
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City asks homeless camp to pull up stakes
City asks homeless camp to pull up stakes ... I find Pedersen's and Muller's heart-string-pulling comments about the Christmas season disingenuous. If they had ... «McMinnville News-Register, Dec 14»
5
Hong Kong student protesters consider pulling up stakes
The Hong Kong Federation of Students will decide in the next week whether to call on protesters to pull up stakes despite having failed to achieve their goal of ... «Reuters, Dec 14»
6
Rock-bottom prices forcing Cliffs to pull up stakes in Canada
The Ohio-based mining giant is preparing to shut down its money-losing Bloom Lake iron ore mine in northeastern Quebec amid rock-bottom prices for the ... «The Globe and Mail, Nov 14»
7
Investigators pull up stakes at auto garage
Officers pulled down the yellow tape that had surrounded AJT Auto Repair on ... a restraining order by contacting him in the weeks leading up to their arrest. «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Sep 14»
8
Car companies pull up stakes
Fourteen years later, Porsche packed up and moved again, this time to Atlanta. Reason: It was at a competitive disadvantage by not being in the Eastern time ... «Fortune, Sep 14»
9
Railroad camp in Northampton about to pull up stakes
NORTHAMPTON - The railroad camp that has been serving Pan Am workers for most of the month will pull up stakes Friday and leave the North Street area, ... «MassLive.com, Jul 14»
10
Girl Scouts pull up stakes at Hickory Hill
Former Girl Scouts and Camp Hickory Hill counselors, from left, Judy Whittaker, Sandra Clarke, Francis Gauthier and her daughter-in-law Jaime Gauthier look at ... «Worcester Telegram, Jun 14»

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