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set up housekeeping



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Idioms and Phrases

Move in together, as in Couples today often set up housekeeping long before they marry . [Mid-1800s]
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Example Sentences

The two might have vowed eternal friendship and set up housekeeping together on a platonic footing.

After a short stay in their first home, Molire and his wife set up housekeeping in Rue de Richelieu.

One March a pair of bluebirds decided to set up housekeeping in the trunk of an old apple-tree near my house.

"Enough to set up housekeeping, if the right sort of things are in them;" and he gave a short laugh.

When he was married later, he gave him some fine mahogany furniture, from his own home, to set up housekeeping with.

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