- beat the drum for someone
- Сленг: поддерживать или продвигать кого-либо
Универсальный англо-русский словарь. Академик.ру. 2011.
beat the drum for someone
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beat the drum for someone or something — tv. to promote or support someone or something. □ I spent a lot of time beating the drum for our plans for the future. □ The senator is only beating the drum for his special interests … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
beat/bang the drum for — to say or write things that strongly support (someone or something) They joined together to beat the drum for their candidate. banging the drum for human rights • • • Main Entry: ↑drum … Useful english dictionary
beat the drum — phrasal also beat a drum : to declaim as meritorious or especially significant : publicize or argue noisily publicity men beating the drum about the new star beat the drum for him as a candidate * * * bang/beat/the drum … Useful english dictionary
Beat the Clock — For the Sparks song, see Beat the Clock (Sparks song). Beat the Clock Genre Game show Presented by Bud Collyer (1950–1961) Jack Narz (1969–1972) … Wikipedia
beat — [[t]bi͟ːt[/t]] ♦ beats, beating, beaten (The form beat is used in the present tense and is the past tense.) 1) VERB If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard. [V n] My wife tried to stop them and they beat her... [V n to n] They… … English dictionary
bang the drum — To indulge in publicity ● drum * * * bang/beat/the drum phrase to publicly show your support for something or someone Thesaurus: to support an idea, plan or personsynonym Main entr … Useful english dictionary
drum — drum1 [drʌm] n [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from Dutch trom] 1.) a musical instrument made of skin stretched over a circular frame, played by hitting it with your hand or a stick ▪ a big bass drum ▪ 1000 people marched, beating drums and… … Dictionary of contemporary English
drum — 1 noun (C) 1 a musical instrument made of skin stretched over a circular frame that you hit with your hand or a stick: the steady rhythmic beating of the drums 2 something that looks like a drum, especially part of a machine: The brake drums are… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
drum — I [[t]drʌm[/t]] n. pl. drums, (esp. collectively for11)drum, 1) mad a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usu. cylindrical body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the… … From formal English to slang
drum — drum1 /drum/, n., pl. drums, (esp. collectively for 11) drum, v., drummed, drumming. n. 1. a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head,… … Universalium
beat — [c]/bit / (say beet) verb (beat, beaten or beat, beating) –verb (t) 1. to strike repeatedly and usually violently. 2. to thrash, cane, or flog, as a punishment. 3. to whisk; stir, as in order to thicken or aerate: to beat cream; to beat eggwhites …
