drum up
Upper Intermediate (B2) informal
To try hard to get more people interested in something or to find more customers or help.
"The sales team spent the whole week drumming up new clients for the launch."
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Why Britain Cares So Much About the Falklands
Wendover Productions · 20:50
tool to drum up powerful nationalist sentiments.
Why We Fight : American Propaganda Goes to War
The Cynical Historian · 25:21
The army is trying to drum up support for the war.
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that make the businesses possible and to drum up new business.
Jack (Kennedy) Schlossberg & Jen Welch from I've had it Podcast - LIVE FROM NEW YORK
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He he's used the assassination files to drum up basically political coverage.
Why We Fight : American Propaganda Goes to War
The Cynical Historian · 10:12
to drum up American pride in being like the leader of the free