dredge something ↔ up phrasal verb (see also dredge)

1. to start talking again about something that happened a long time ago, especially something unpleasant:
Newsweek magazine dredged up some remarks which he made last year.

2. to manage to remember something, or to feel or express an emotion, with difficulty:
Robertson tried to dredge up an image of her in his mind.
From somewhere she dredged up a brilliant smile.

3. to pull something up from the bottom of a river, lake etc

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dredge up
dredge up (something)
1.
to remember something from the past.
He hates it when people dredge up the crimes that happened here 20 years ago.

You're not dredging that old idea up again, are you?

Usage notes: often said about something unpleasant
2.
to find something after a lot of looking.
We've finally dredged up enough money to have a proper lab with proper equipment.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

dredge up something
dredge up (something)
1.
to remember something from the past.
He hates it when people dredge up the crimes that happened here 20 years ago.

You're not dredging that old idea up again, are you?

Usage notes: often said about something unpleasant
2.
to find something after a lot of looking.
We've finally dredged up enough money to have a proper lab with proper equipment.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

dredge something up
to uncover something unpleasant and remind people about it
The newspaper is always trying to dredge bad things up about the government.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

dredge up
to uncover something unpleasant and remind people about it
The newspaper is always trying to dredge bad things up about the government.

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