drag up

• Verbe à particule utilisé pour désigner le fait de soulever délibérément un sujet désagréable ou gênant du passé.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of intentionally bringing up an unpleasant or embarrassing topic from the past.

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Mention an unpleasant topicinformalbritish

   To bring up an old, unpleasant, or embarrassing subject in conversation.

   ressortir un sujet désagréable

   • Why did you have to drag up that old argument?
   • She always drags up his past mistakes during fights.
   • He dragged up the incident from years ago, which upset everyone.

   Synonymesdig uprake uprehashresurrect

Verbe de basedrag