drum up

Meaning

1. drum sth up

   to try hard to get support or business

   He had flown to the north of the country to drum up support for the campaign.

In the movies · 3

• We could never drum up this kind of publicity in a million years.Pride2014
• that he believes Toschi wrote the letter to drum up publicity for himself.Zodiac2007
• Well, we're gonna have to drum it up on our own.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998

Learn it in full scenes

• Zodiac2007
  • Darlene Ferrin's Last Drive
  • The Zodiac Confession Call
  • Zodiac's Cipher Reaches the Chronicle

From the same entry

• beat the drum
• march to a different drummer
• drum into head
• drum into
• drum out