Meaning of rake over | Babel Free

Definitions

To discuss something unpleasant from the past.

idiomatic

Examples

“Tristam Darling [the narrator character] describes Florence by saying, among other things, "She had no bosom, a deficiency I always thought in a woman like a bed without a pillow."(!) Gordon [the author] rakes over every female character in the book in a similar way. No woman is treated positively without being abused.”

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