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单词 to drum out of
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to drum out of
b. transitive. To dismiss or expel in disgrace, originally from a regiment, military service, etc. Later also more generally: to expel, drive out. Frequently in to drum out of.Originally with reference to the military practice of accompanying the expulsion of an offender with the playing of specific music by a regimental drummer (cf. rogue's march n. at rogue n. and adj. Compounds 2).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession > forcibly or ignominiously
eject1555
rumble1570
obtrude1595
to show (a person) the door1638
to kick downstairs1678
to kick out1697
drum1720
firk1823
to chuck out1869
bounce1877
boot1880
out-kick1883
turf1888
hoof1893
hound1922
1720 C. Brockwell Chronological Hist. Great-Brit. 1148 One Devenish..was sentenc'd by a Court-Martial to be ty'd to a Tree and whipt by the First, Second, and Third Regiments of Guards at three several Times, and afterwards to be drummed out of the Regiment.
1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. x. 372 They..ought to be drummed out of society.
1795 Scots Mag. Dec. 836/2 If you have an ear, I'll cut it off, and drum you back to Fife.
1811 Naval Chron. 25 28 You are to be drummed ashore.
1814 Z. Taylor Let. 6 Sept. in J. R. Irelan Republic (1888) XII. ii. 29 I determined to drum them [sc. the enemy] from the island, let their numbers be what they might.
1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 292/2 He would be drummed out of the county on a wooden horse.
1934 Hammond (Indiana) Times 30 Mar. 13/1 The soldier, either in war or peace, who so manifestly failed..would have been drummed from the service.
1952 Life 17 Nov. 85 If by chance he likes them equally well, both camps will drum him out of culinary society.
1996 Advocate 14 May 14/3 Parsons was drummed off the coach's bench in 1981.
2008 J. Fisher Forensics under Fire i. 14 The fact that he was drummed out of the profession indicates that he was, even by the most lenient standards, incompetent and corrupt.
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