英语词汇pull up stakes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pull up stakes
词源	pull up stakes. These stakes are boundary stakes, not the cir- cus tent stakes that are pulled up when a circus moves to an- other town. The expression goes back at least to 1640 in Ameri- ca, where settlers who wanted better land than had been given them simply pulled up their boundary stakes and moved on to another location, resetting the stakes there.
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