move house
(idiomatic, UK, Irish) To change one's place of residence.
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(idiomatic, UK, Irish) To change one's place of residence.
I haven’t had any post since I moved house.
“ha! reminds me when I was preparing to move house a couple of years ago I managed to knock a Pauline Kael book off the top shelf and the corner of it struck me full in the face, just missing my eye. Luckily it wasn't a hardback.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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