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单词 to beat the drum
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to beat (also bang, sound, etc.) the (big) drum (also drums)
P4. to beat (also bang, sound, etc.) the (big) drum (also drums): to direct attention to or promote something enthusiastically, often with the intention of attracting support for a particular cause or opinion.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [verb (intransitive)] > advertise ostentatiously or extravagantly
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1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. Gv What need you sir To beate the drumme of my wifes infamy.
1786 New Ann. Reg. 1785 Public Papers 178/1 Let not every man, who thinks proper to beat on the spirit-stirring drum of the constitution, make you start and tremble.
1887 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 69 The quid pro quo system, ‘You beat the big drum for me in England, and I'll do the same for you in the States’.
1894 Evening News (London) 25 May 2/4 In spite of the care taken on both sides to avoid blowing the whistle and banging the drum of international fraternisation, something of a national flavour crept into the movement.
1907 Q. Rev. Apr. 393 It was left to the Navy League to thump the big drum.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. 1. 30/3 The second big objection to the Weston proposal is that it involves a flagrant violation of the home rule principle for which the reform element has beaten the drums so loudly in recent years.
2006 Wine & Spirits Q. Winter 19/1 ‘Wine publications have been beating the drum on Spain,’ says Marc Hazur, specialty purchasing supervisor.
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