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set up shop
Idioms and Phrases
Open a business, start a profession, as in Now that you've got your degree, where do you plan to set up shop? This idiom was first recorded about 1570.Example Sentences
He will be 84 years old in May, has recently sold his songwriting catalog to Universal Music for a rumored $300 million, and if he felt the need to play in front of a live audience, could easily set up shop for a couple of weeks in places like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles and let the fans come to him — and they happily would.
We applied in the area of the category of urgent concern and conservation, citing that this was very likely headed in the direction of becoming a mine very soon, and we wanted to go to exactly that base camp where they had set up shop.
But the wolves set up shop and torment the cattle.
The US market is crucial to Vietnam, an emerging electronics powerhouse where manufacturing giants like Samsung, Intel and Foxconn, the Taiwanese firm contracted to make iPhones, have set up shop.
Allowing the bitcoiners to set up shop here has been transformational to the business.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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