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put down roots
Idioms and Phrases
Settle somewhere, become established, as in We've put down roots here and don't want to move away . This metaphoric expression, first recorded in 1921, likens the rooting of a plant to human settlement.Example Sentences
Their families have since put down roots.
Because many have been here for so long, Syrian families have put down roots, sending their children to Turkish schools and universities.
When I asked him if he would ever consider making a life in the city where his family had worked so hard to put down roots, he shook his head.
The tech industry has become increasingly involved in Bay Area politics as more executives and their workers put down roots.
Tech titans who have put down roots in the city poured millions of dollars into campaign contributions, pressing for an outcome that would infuse this famously liberal city with more centrist politics.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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