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keep house(1)

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[keep house(1)] {v. phr.}

To do the necessary things in a household; do the cooking and cleaning.

* /Since their mother died, Mary and her brother keep house for their father./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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