“Pull up stakes”in other languages
Move away from a place for good.
English
French
German
Same idea, different pictures
All three take down a camp. English pulls up the stakes that marked a settler's claim or held a tent. German breaks down the tents, die Zelte abbrechen, and French folds its baggage, plier bagage, as an army did when striking camp.
More sayings in other languages
- Put something on the back burner
- Put the cart before the horse
- Rack one's brains
- It's raining cats and dogs
- Raise hell
- Read someone the riot act
- Rest on one's laurels
- Without rhyme or reason
- Go around the houses