Rachel Chau
2021-08-16 06:08
Set up shop verb phrase
To start a business
After graduation, I want to set up shop in my hometown.
My foreign friends were amazed by seeing Vietnamese people set up shop right on the sidewalk.
To stay in a place longer than expected, especially in an unwanted way
He comes to our café everyday with his laptop, orders a drink and sets up shop until closing time.
Try to avoid to change something because doing something else could make things worse
If a person "eats someone's salt", he or she stays at someone's house.
Used to say that one starts their own business
To be in someone's home.
The verb "set" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This idiom was first recorded about 1570.
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