drum up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Togenerateorencourage; tocampaignfor.The candidate gave speeches, shook hands, and kissed babies in an effort todrum upsupport before the election.2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page73:From 1910, todrum upcustom, theMetropolitanwould operate a luxury Pullman service from Verney Junction toAldgate.2013May 25, “No hiding place”, inThe Economist‎[1], volume407, number8837, page74:In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not ondrumming upbusiness, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.; (transitive,UK,slang)To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle.

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: 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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