Verb
put down roots (third-person singular simple present puts down roots, present participle putting down roots, simple past and past participle put down roots)
(idiomatic) To establish oneself in a place; to become settled.
It might be hard for her to leave London after all these years: she's put down roots there.
I haven't put down roots in this town yet, 'cause I've got trouble making friends here.
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow. Carl Jung
If there would not have been a Waco, I would have put down roots somewhere and not been so unsettled with the fact that my government ... was a threat to me. Everything that Waco implies was on the forefront of my thoughts. That sort of guided my path for the next couple of years. Timothy McVeigh
When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times. Lee Greenwood
I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place. Bharati Mukherjee
We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism. John R. Allen