drum-beater
noun
1A person who beats a drum.
2 Figurative (originally) a proponent of going to war; (more generally) a vehement supporter of a cause, idea, product, etc.
3An implement used to beat a drum, especially a stick with a padded end.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Athenian Oracle.
- take (or get) one's lumps
- take (or have) a punt at
- take (or have) pity
- take (or lift) the lid off (or lift the lid on)
- take (or pick) up the slack
- take (or plead) the Fifth
- take (or plead) the Fifth Amendment
- takeout
- take-out double
- take over
- takeover
- takeover bid
- takeover bidder
- take part
- take place
- take pleasure in
- taker
- taker-in
- taker meer
- taker-off
- take root
- taker-up
- take shape
- take ship
- Takeshita, Noboru