tub-thumping
Example Sentences
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That’s also the name of the real-life West Belfast outfit whose origin story — juiced for maximum political energy and comedic verve by writer-director Rich Peppiatt — makes for a tub-thumping, fist-pumping good time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
Certainly, there’s a long tradition of tub-thumping between these schools — and it’s not even the first time that the “academic prowess” of Oregon was brought into question by the Huskies’ side.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Anand Menon, a professor of European politics at King’s College London, anticipated that there would be plenty of Brexit tub-thumping to come.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2020
Even reviews which praised the show, such as AA Gill's in the Sunday Times, celebrated it for not making gay rights a "tub-thumping issue".
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2019
I had hoped that this empty tub-thumping to which we had been listening would have affected her.
From The Secret City by Sir Hugh Walpole
