| 释义 |
drag something up informal Deliberately mention an unwelcome or unpleasant fact: pieces of evidence about his early life were dragged up...- Mobile phone records were dragged up as part of an investigation into insider trading, which embroiled one of the richest men in the City, before concluding there was no case to answer.
- I can't believe they are dragging this story up again!
- The current bad guys are dragging it up again to justify contemporary viciousness.
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