pull up stakes

"It's a nuisance, having to pull up stakes," he went on, with a fretful glance about the studio.

The devil take me if I don't pull up stakes and be off, if that sort of calumny is to be flung at me!

Perhaps we may go to Milan with you, or to Naples,—there's a conservatory there, too; and we can pull up stakes as easily as not.

Say, well have rice every way under the sun up to the day we pull up stakes and get out of here.

So again in 1773, calling his little family around the fireside one night, he told them he meant to pull up stakes and move on.