set up house

Meaning

1. to make a place your home

   They set up house together in a small flat in Brighton.

In the movies · 1

• Well, why don't we just set up house here, huh?12 Angry Men1957

Learn it in full scenes

• 12 Angry Men1957
  • Jurors Gather in the Jury Room
  • Juror 8 Votes Not Guilty
  • The Jurors Go Around the Table

From the same entry

• bring the house down
• get on like a house on fire
• go all round the houses
• keep house
• on the house
• put your house in order
• clean house
• not a dry eye in the house
• eat out of house and home
• people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
• safe as houses