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Drag up

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from the past).

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

  2. 2
    mention something unpleasant from the past wordnet
  3. 3
    To educate reluctant pupils. figuratively, transitive

    ""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.[…]""

  4. 4
    To raise a child with insufficient discipline or instillment of social etiquette. UK, figuratively, transitive

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

  5. 5
    Of a man: to dress in women's clothing for entertainment.
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  1. 6
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, up.

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