drum up: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    USUKAustraliainformal
    • To try to generate or increase public interest, support, business, or sales by active solicitation or promotion.
    • To seek to obtain votes, customers, or clients through energetic or purposeful campaigning.

    Examples

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    • The campaign team worked hard to drum up support before the election day.

      El equipo de campaña trabajó duro para generar apoyo antes del día de las elecciones.

    • If we want more attendees, we’ll need to drum up interest through social media ads.

      Si queremos más asistentes, tendremos que generar interés mediante anuncios en redes sociales.

    • Local businesses are drumming up sales by offering special discounts this weekend.

      Los negocios locales están aumentando las ventas ofreciendo descuentos especiales este fin de semana.

  • 2.

    USUKinformalcolloquial
    • To rally, recruit, or assemble people or resources for a cause or action.
    • To summon or mobilize a group or constituency.

    Examples

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    • The charity is drumming up volunteers for the upcoming food drive next weekend.

      The charity is rallying volunteers for the upcoming food drive next weekend.

    • We need to drum up some support among the local businesses if we want this project to succeed.

      We need to recruit some support among the local businesses if we want this project to succeed.

    • Can you help drum up interest for the new environmental campaign at school?

      Can you help assemble interest for the new environmental campaign at school?

  • 3.

    USUKinformal
    • To provoke, manufacture, or stir up an accusation, charge, or public feeling; to instigate support or opposition by deliberate means.

    Examples

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    • The opposition party drummed up allegations of corruption to weaken the incumbent's reputation.

      The opposition party provoked allegations of corruption to weaken the incumbent's reputation.

    • She was accused of drumming up public outrage through misleading headlines in the article.

      She was accused of stirring up public outrage through misleading headlines in the article.

    • If they drum up enough anger, the protest might gain national attention quickly.

      If they stir up enough anger, the protest might gain national attention quickly.

Examples:

  • EN: Oh, that. We picked this drum up in a hock shop, and the sign was on it already.
    ES: Conseguimos esto en una casa de empeños y el nombre ya estaba ahí.
  • EN: Saidi, send out the runners, drum up the tribes.
    ES: Saidi, envía porteadores, toca los tambores.
  • EN: Oh, that. We picked this drum up in a hock shop, and the sign was on it already.
    ES: Conseguimos esto en una casa de empeños y el nombre ya estaba ahí.
  • EN: Saidi, send out the runners, drum up the tribes.
    ES: Saidi, envía porteadores, toca los tambores.
  • EN: Well, it's this way. Your father's in politics. If you buy Skyview, there'd be a lot of people who'd say it was just a stunt to drum up votes for the next election.
    ES: Bien, es de esta forma, tu padre está en política, ...si compras Sky View, habrá mucha gente diciendo que es por motivos electorales.
  • EN: We gonna stick around and drum up some business.
    ES: Havemos negocios en el pueblo.
  • EN: You get me a job as marshal, Denver, and we'll drum up a little business.
    ES: Si yo fuera jefe de policía, haríamos negocios juntos.
  • EN: - Go on, drum up a charge. Throw me in. You've done it before.
    ES: No sería la primera vez.
  • EN: Save it to drum up some business for your broken-down cotton gin.
    ES: Ahórratelas para aumentar el trabajo de tu vieja desmotadora de algodón.
  • EN: You can't drum up copy on him?
    ES: ¿No puedes catapultarlo?
  • EN: - Then who will drum up?
    ES: - ¿Y quién anunciará a los artistas?
  • EN: Is this all the trade you could drum up?
    ES: - ¿Es esto todo lo que has conseguido?
  • EN: I'd like to move here, but I'd have to drum up new business from scratch, and changing schools for the kids would be a pain.
    ES: Si pudiera, lo haría yo, pero perdería mis negocios. Y no es fácil cambiar a los niños de escuela.
  • EN: Uh, we're going to have a meeting. We've gotta go out and drum up some new business.
    ES: Tendremos una junta para tratar de conseguir clientes nuevos.
  • EN: I find the most amusing things about people are their guilts that they drum up for themselves.
    ES: Creo que las cosas más divertidas de la gente son las culpas que sienten de sí mismos.
  • EN: Clearboy, see if you can drum up a can of gasoline.
    ES: Clearboy, a ver si puede traer una lata de gasolina.
  • EN: Well, he gets the idea of trying to drum up a little business with me showing off his hardware, so I said, "All right," I said,
    ES: Y se le ocurre la idea de comenzar un pequeño negocio donde yo mostraría sus equipos, y le dije, "Está bien".

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