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keep house

Idioms  

  1. Manage a household, especially do the housework. For example, It's difficult to find time to keep house when you work full-time. [c. 1600]

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As those homely implements suggest, “Terce” focuses on the work of people not often celebrated in liturgy: those who keep house, cultivate gardens, nurture children.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

Staff kept girls in cottages and trained them to work and keep house.

From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2020

Hilda holed up with her cat, Rommel, until, on Christmas Day 1987, she was invited to move to the country with the widowed Dr Lowther and keep house for him.

From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2016

While daddy’s gone, Fran — despite the flu she’s suffering from — is reminded to buy groceries and keep house for the summer people, such roustabout work being the family’s main source of income.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2015

Like the other girls in the village, they stayed home and learned from their mother how to keep house.

From "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park

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