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drum up

idiom

To generate or encourage; to campaign for.


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Related idioms5entries
  1. 01

    beat the drum for

    To give voice to one's support of; to promote or publicize.

  2. 02

    drum into

    To repeat something to a (person) until they accept, remember or understand it.

  3. 03

    drum out

    To remove, especially unfairly, from an organization or position of responsibility.

  4. 04

    march to the beat of a different drum

    To do things in one's own way regardless of societal norms and conventional expectations.

  5. 05

    on the drum

    Money in the form of paper currency or coins, paid immediately at the time and place of a transaction, especially to a soldier as pay or bonuses.

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