English Dictionary

up sticks

verb

(Britain, sailing, slang) To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing. / (Britain, figuratively, colloquial) To prepare to move; to pack up; to go and live in a different place.

They decided to up sticks and move to a new city.

意味（1）

(Britain, sailing, slang) To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing.

意味（2）

(Britain, figuratively, colloquial) To prepare to move; to pack up; to go and live in a different place.

Both of these conquered more and more of India, till at length the Rajput city of Delhi was captured, and then the disgusted Rajputs ‘upped sticks’ and fled before Islam and the Turk, and finally settled amid the inaccessible mountains and jungles and occasional fertile valleys of what is known as Rajputana or Rajasthan.