"Of course you'll return, and pick up your life where it left off."
You can't go back to April 19 and pick up your life.
Imagine he goes to trial, is found not guilty, and then tries to pick up his life.
Certainly too old to be picking up my entire life and heading for the stars.
But we knew you wanted to get home and pick up your normal life again.
Another week or ten days and the blonde could pick up her life where she'd left off, not much the worse for her experience.
The second book picks up her life ten years after the death of her husband.
One, keen to express himself through hard work, sees that his only choice is to 'better myself and pick my life up.
He has to pick up his life and get on with it.
Only a few families can actually pick up their life in, say, California and move it to Nebraska.