take up the cudgels for

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take up the cudgels for somebody/something (British & Australian) also take up the cudgels on behalf of somebody/something (British & Australian)

to argue strongly in support of someone or something

Usage notes: A cudgel is a short, heavy stick which is used as a weapon.

Relatives have taken up the cudgels for two British women accused of murder. (British & Australian)

See also: take, up

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In countries like France, where the peasants constitute far more than half of the population, it was natural that writers who sided with the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, should use, in their criticism of the bourgeois regime, the standard of the peasant and petty bourgeois, and from the standpoint of these intermediate classes should take up the cudgels for the working class. The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context			take time take time out take to bed take to court take to heart take to heels take to like a duck to water take to one side take to pieces take to task take to the cleaner's take to the cleaners take too much on take turn take turns take turns with take umbrage take umbrage at take under advisement take under wing take up abode take up arms take up residence take up space take up the challenge take up the cudgels for take up time take up where left off take up where one left off take with a grain of salt take with a pinch of salt take word for take word for it take wrong take years off take your pick Take your seat take-off artist taken taken aback taken for dead taken with takes one to know one takes the cake takes two to tango taking taking calls taking care of business tale tale never loses in the telling tale of woe			take up for take up for take up for take up in conference take up membership take up on take up on take up on take up on take up on take up one’s abode take up quarters Take Up Rate Take Up Rates Take Up Reel Take Up Reels take up residence take up residence take up residence in take up room take up space take up the baton take up the baton take up the baton take up the challenge take up the cudgels take up the cudgels take up the cudgels take up the cudgels take up the cudgels take up the cudgels for take up the cudgels on behalf of take up the gauntlet take up the gauntlet take up the reins take up the slack take up the slack take up the slack take up the slack take up the slack take up time take up where left off take up where one left off take up with take up with take up with take up with take up with take upon oneself take vengeance take vengeance on take warning take water Take What You Like And Leave The Rest take wing take wing take wing take wing take with a grain of salt take with a grain of salt take with a grain of salt

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