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set up shop (third-person singular simple present sets up shop, present participle setting up shop, simple past and past participle set up shop)
- To physically arrange a shop or workplace.
He set up shop in his garage every Saturday.
- (idiomatic) To establish a business.
- They set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road.
2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.
- 2010 September, Derek Rapp, "Good Company", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 80:
- these companies could enjoy support required to set up shop for the long term.
- Antonym: close up shop
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physically arrange a shop or workplace
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