up sticks/up stakes: eggcorn origin? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Douglas G. Wilson]

A glance at US popular culture: Dagwood Bumstead used this "cut out" (v.i.)
= "leave" (in 1975). So did other conventional comic strip characters.

When/where I grew up, as I recall, this "cut out" was routine among all
races and religions ... maybe with some male predominance, though?

HDAS shows it from way back, of course.

-- Doug Wilson


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