set up shop | Idiomator

Meaning: To physically arrange ashoporworkplace.Heset up shopin his garage every Saturday.; (idiomatic)To establish abusiness.Theyset up shopas venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road.2012June 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)‎[1]: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 andset up shopas the Plow King.2010September, Derek Rapp, "Good Company",St. Louismagazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 80:[…]these companies could enjoy support required toset up shopfor the long term.Antonym:close up shop

Examples:

EN: You stay here and unpack these things and set up shop.
ES: Quédate aquí, desempaca estas cosas y arma una tienda.
EN: I'd just as leave set up shop here if I didn't have a partner.
ES: Me quedaría antes que irme si no tuviera un socio.
EN: And you wasn't gonna let Britt set up shop in Texas.
ES: Y no ibas a permitir que Britt estableciera su negocio en Texas.
EN: - Hans, why don't we set up shop here?
ES: Hans, ¿y si montamos aquí el taller?
EN: We'd've had a court order to maintain telephone surveillance... on every one of those hoodlums from the minute he checked into Los Angeles and set up shop.
ES: Hubiéramos tenido una orden de vigilancia telefónica de todos esos delincuentes desde que se instalaron en Los Angeles.
EN: We'll set up shop in town.
ES: Iremos a la ciudad.
EN: Which is where we were when we set up shop two years ago.
ES: Éramos únicos en el género.
EN: When we set up shop, we were alone in the field. Now, we've got a dozen imitators. The public is beginning to think we're all alike.
ES: A día de hoy, tenemos competidores que nos están imitando.
EN: He's set up shop in Grinidge. 14 Canon's Lane.
ES: Abrió una tienda en Grinidge, Canon Lane 14.
EN: If I let - I let you set up shop in this neighborhood... the people would chop me like a ripe banana.
ES: Si dejo que te quedes aquí, la gente se tirará sobre mí como si fueran lobos.
EN: Shall I set up shop here, Tommy?
ES: ¿Me preparo, Tommy?
EN: We've set up shop here, where it's so peaceful.
ES: Nos hemos instalado aquí, que se está tranquilo.
EN: Our little organization is used to this. We'll just have to set up shop someplace else.
ES: La organización está acostumbrada, cambiaremos de sitio.
EN: Well, he set up shop in a tent... in a vacant lot at the corner of 6th and Albert.
ES: Bueno, se instaló en una carpa en un terreno baldío en la esquina de la Sexta con Alberto.
EN: - Yeah, I do. You tell him to get out. And if he's planning to set up shop in the outlet, the army will be down his throat.
ES: Pues sí, dile que se vaya, que si planea dar algún golpe en las afueras, el ejército lo impedirá y si se mueve en mi territorio, lo haré yo.

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