keep the home fires burning

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,colloquial)To maintain dailyroutineand provide thenecessitiesof life in ahomeorcommunity.1881, Andrew Jackson Davis,The genesis and ethics of conjugal love‎[1], page115:We got our water from a pump in the backyard and there is no domestic fatigue indoors or out-of-doors that I have not done continuously, not for fun but tokeep the home fires burning.2005, Karen Houppert,Home fires burning: married to the military, for better or worse‎[2],→ISBN, page xix:While the military has moved to gender-neutral language in all its official descriptions of the "spouses" whokeep the home fires burningduring deployments[…]

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