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take up the cudgels for |
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take up the cudgels for someone/something (British & Australian, British & Australian) to argue strongly in support of someone or something. Relatives have taken up the cudgels for two British women accused of murder. |
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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. |
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