pull up stumps

Meaning

Verb

To cease doing something, at least for the day.
To relocate, emigrate, move one's home to some other place.

Origin

From the game of cricket, where a day's play is terminated by the umpire pulling up the stumps.
To cut off one's roots; or to pull up your house, (figurative) stumps & all.

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