Idiom
beat the drum for
Meaning
To give voice to one's support of; to promote or publicize.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She loves to beat the drum for her favorite local charity.”
“The manager spent the entire meeting beating the drum for the new project to ensure everyone supported it.”
“Throughout his long career in politics, he consistently beat the drum for environmental reform, even when his colleagues remained skeptical of the cause.”
Examples
simple
“She loves to beat the drum for her favorite local charity.”
contextual
“The manager spent the entire meeting beating the drum for the new project to ensure everyone supported it.”
complex
“Throughout his long career in politics, he consistently beat the drum for environmental reform, even when his colleagues remained skeptical of the cause.”
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