单词 | to drag up |
释义 | > as lemmasto drag up 12. colloquial. to drag up: to rear roughly or without delicacy: to bring up ‘anyhow’. ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [verb (transitive)] > badly misnurture1623 to drag up1699 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Dragg'd up, as the Rakes call it, educated or brought up. 1802 M. Moore Lascelles II. 5 Lavinia..has been wretchedly dragged up by the old curate. 1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. Mar. 263 Poor people..do not bring up their children; they drag them up. 1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 532 They must be tenderly reared and not ‘dragged up’, as the saying is. < as lemmas |
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