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cry up

VERB
beat the drum for
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"You want me to cry up here? I don’t have anything more to say."

From Fox News Oct. 4, 2021

By 1968, it had become so much a part of the city’s culture that The Washington Post reported that a common cry up and down Wisconsin Avenue on Sundays was “How d’ya like your eggs?”

From Washington Post Jun. 18, 2018

So long and loudly did he cry up that stock that when best-selling Jurgen appeared, it was dedicated to him.

From Time Magazine Archive

It means sweating in a suit, watching Ma cry up close, and reciting that dumb grief script to everyone who asks, under threat of Ma’s heat vision.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Methought I should be wiser next, And would a patriot turn, Began to doat on Johnny Wilks, And cry up Parson Horne.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns




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