单词 | to drum out |
释义 | > as lemmasto drum out to drum out transitive. To expel or dismiss in disgrace, originally from a regiment, garrison, or the like; (sometimes more generally) to drive out. Usually in passive.Originally carried out to the accompaniment of drumming: see note at sense 4b. ΚΠ 1740 Polit. State Great Brit. Feb. 110 Evans is afterwards to be drummed out with an Halter about his Neck, and his Crime in Capital [printed Captial] Letters affixed on his Back. 1776 Scots Mag. June 312/1 The messenger was sent to prison for a few days, and drummed out. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at March Rogue's March, a tune which is played..for the purpose of drumming out any person who has behaved disorderly..in a camp or garrison. 1869 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 59/2 If I forsake this poor woman in her grief..I am the most selfish scoundrel in the world, and would deserve to be drummed out. 1941 L. Woolf Let. 24 May (1990) 427 The future of democracy..depends to some extent on..whether the people..will drum out at the earliest possible moment the medicine men and the confidence tricksters. 1995 Pacific Current Mar. 7/3 Expect a leadership campaign that is nastier..than any party process since the Waffle [i.e. the Movement for an Independent Socialist Canada] was drummed out in the '70s. < as lemmas |
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