set up house

释义

1. （在某处）建立家庭

   to make a place your home

   They set up house together in a small flat in Brighton.他们一同在布赖顿的一个小公寓里建立了家庭。

电影里这样说 · 1 部

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

在完整场景里学

• 十二怒汉1957
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  • 陪审团围桌轮流发言：burden of proof（举证责任）

同一词条的短语

• 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