set up house together
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She then follows Ulrich to Vienna, where they set up house together.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019
After some misadventures — including a narrow escape that shows Reichardt gently flexing her action muscles — the two men reunite and set up house together, cooking, sewing, philosophizing.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019
Cross and Eliot returned to England and set up house together, but within a few weeks, she was suffering from an old kidney ailment.
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018
They set up house together, at No. 27 Rue de Fleurus, have been together ever since.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His wife shared, though she slightly perhaps tempered, his opinions; and when they first set up house together they insisted that all their household—the domestics included—should dine at the same table.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)