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Idiom

move house

Meaning

To change one's place of residence.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“We are going to move house next month.”

“It is always stressful to move house, but we are excited about our new neighborhood.”

“After living in the same apartment for twenty years, the elderly couple decided it was finally time to move house and downsize.”

Examples

simple

“We are going to move house next month.”

contextual

“It is always stressful to move house, but we are excited about our new neighborhood.”

complex

“After living in the same apartment for twenty years, the elderly couple decided it was finally time to move house and downsize.”

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