up sticks

Meaning

1. to suddenly move from your house and go to live somewhere else

In the movies · 7

• got to pick up sticks against another manTropic Thunder2008
• ... pick up those sticks.Kill Bill: Vol. 22004
• Who put the sticks up their butts?Guardians of the Galaxy2014
• I'm the one what sticks up for you!Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 22017
• And when you wake up, your hair, it sticks up like that.500 Days of Summer2009
• Why don't you comb your hair, Sonny? It sticks up. Look like you smelled a wolf.The Last Picture Show1971
• one day back in 1966, pick up sticks, and me four months pregnant with this precious angel,The Waterboy1998

From the same entry

• be up to
• not be up to much
• up against
• up and down
• up and running
• up before
• up for
• up there
• up to
• up and down
• up yours
• raise the ante