单词 | to set up shop |
释义 | > as lemmasto set up (a) shop P8. to set up (a) shop: to start a business; to commence functional activity; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > run a business [verb (intransitive)] > start a business to set up shop1409 to set up1593 1409 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1915) II. 178 No person of the same crafte sall sett upp no shopp nor occupy als maistre in the sayd crafte..before the tyme he be..approved for ane able werkman be the serchours of the sayd crafte. ?1580 J. Bramis Merry Ieste Shrewde Wyfe sig. Di He set vp his shop with haberdash ware. 1683 Dutch Rogue 208 Diomedes having got such a noble purchase he resolves to set up shop again, and try what he could do that way once more. 1781 R. Twining Jrnl. 12 Aug. in Sel. Papers Twining Family (1887) 42 They had amongst them watches enough to set up a shop. 1899 E. T. Adney Klondike Stampede iii. 56 A shoemaker, a blacksmith, a watchmaker, also, have set up shop. 2011 Avenue (Univ. of Glasgow) June 15/1 The Students' Representative Council..has been devoted to the welfare of the University's students since it set up shop in 1886. < as lemmas |
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