单词 | to go to housekeeping |
释义 | > as lemmasto go to housekeeping a. The maintenance of a household; the action of owning a house or property (now rare). Now chiefly North American: the action of setting up house or living in self-contained accommodation as one's home, typically as a married couple; frequently in to go to housekeeping, to set up housekeeping. ΚΠ 1529 S. Fish tr. H. Bomelius Summe Holye Script. xxxi. sig. Q.v Therfore it were moche better that she [sc. a widow] were maryed ageyn for the carefulnesse and rule of house keping [Du. regiment van den huyse]. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 274 Democritus..being wearie of house keeping,..and burthened with businesse, got him into a desart place,..as an Heremite or wildernesse wanderer. 1652 S. Hartlib Cornu Copia 13 They may have their choice either by parcels as they have need, or the ful furniture of an house from executors, or from such as have occasion to give up housekeeping. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 83 Marriage is honourable, but House-keeping is a Shrew. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. iii. 88 At her death, my father gave up house-keeping. 1836 G. F. Turner Let. 7 Jan. in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) I. 22 We cannot go to housekeeping here (without going to the expense of buying anew..). 1851 C. Brontë Let. ?24 May (2000) II. 622 Papa seriously told me yesterday that if I married and left him—he should give up housekeeping and go into lodgings!!! 1882 Cent. Mag. June 260/1 Yes, I long to go to housekeeping. We can afford it now. 1940 D. H. Keller Devil & Doctor x. 139 The sooner they were home and started housekeeping the better it would be for everybody concerned. 1965 Look 24 Aug. 59/1 Kyoko and Mitsunori Chigita set up housekeeping in a five-room apartment. 2003 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 192/3 He set up housekeeping on the 12th floor, sharing a room with his typewriter and golf clubs. < as lemmas |
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