up sticks
idiom
British, informal
: to pack up one's belongings and move to a different place
They upped sticks and left for London.
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Back in March, Fortune spoke to Americans who were planning to up sticks in the event Trump was elected U.S. president, a sign of their fears for the outcome of his reign, and of fatigue with the increasingly toxic U.S. political environment.
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 6 Nov. 2024
In another corner of X, however, RAC1's Marta Ramon tweeted that the real reason Gundogan had been left out was to put pressure on him to up sticks.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
As the world heats up, many species are expected to up sticks and meander many miles away from their typical habitat, bringing various pathogens along with them for the ride.
—WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
Pick up sticks or a guitar pick.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2022
There are certainly times when physicality is needed around the net-front, but tying up sticks instead of trading crosschecks has become an effective way to defend in the front of the net.
—Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
As a consequence, according to Joe Carlasare, a bitcoin advocate and partner at law firm SmithAmundsen LLC, some developers in the DeFi space might simply up sticks and leave America altogether.
—Wired, 17 Aug. 2021
Mehring didn’t pick up sticks again until the pandemic took social gatherings off the table.
—René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2021
Some workers surely feared that unionizing would prompt Amazon to up sticks.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
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Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 6 Nov. 2024
In another corner of X, however, RAC1's Marta Ramon tweeted that the real reason Gundogan had been left out was to put pressure on him to up sticks.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
As the world heats up, many species are expected to up sticks and meander many miles away from their typical habitat, bringing various pathogens along with them for the ride.
—WIRED, 27 Oct. 2022
Pick up sticks or a guitar pick.
—Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2022
There are certainly times when physicality is needed around the net-front, but tying up sticks instead of trading crosschecks has become an effective way to defend in the front of the net.
—Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2021
As a consequence, according to Joe Carlasare, a bitcoin advocate and partner at law firm SmithAmundsen LLC, some developers in the DeFi space might simply up sticks and leave America altogether.
—Wired, 17 Aug. 2021
Mehring didn’t pick up sticks again until the pandemic took social gatherings off the table.
—René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2021
Some workers surely feared that unionizing would prompt Amazon to up sticks.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021
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“Up sticks.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/up%20sticks. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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