keep the home fires burning
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keep the home fires burning
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A reference to keeping campfires, lights, etc. at one's home village burning, often while part of the population travels elsewhere to hunt, etc.
verb keeps the home fires burning · keeping the home fires burning · kept the home fires burning
- To maintain daily routine and provide the necessities of life in a home or community. We got our water from a pump in the backyard and there is no domestic fatigue indoors or out-of-doors that I have not done continuously, not for fun but to keep the home fires burning.
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