Meaning of drag up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from the past).
2. To educate reluctant pupils.
   figuratively, transitive
3. To raise a child with insufficient discipline or instillment of social etiquette.
   UK, figuratively, transitive
4. Of a man: to dress in women's clothing for entertainment.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, up.

Examples

“I don't know⟳ why John had to drag⟳ up the incident of the car accident. It was really embarrassing.”

“It’s hard to understand⟳ how a mother as devoted as Diana would choose⟳, in 1995, to drag⟳ up her affair with Hewitt again in her explosive interview with the BBC’s Martin Bashir on Panorama. She knew how devastated her boys had been by their father’s on-camera confession of infidelity with Camilla Parker Bowles in Jonathan Dimbleby’s 1994 ITV documentary, and how truly mortified they felt when Princess in Love⟳ came out.”

“"I don't want⟳ to spoil⟳ any comparison you are going to make⟳," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve.[…]"”

“It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.”

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