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idiomdrag sb into the 20th/21st century BrEBrE(also drag sth into the 20th/21st century)modern to try to make people more modern in their ideas, methods, or equipment:It's going to be a full-time job to drag Europe into the twenty-first century.You can't help noticing that all attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th century have failed so far.Note You may hear people talking about dragging someone into a time that has already passed, such as the 1960s, 70s etc, in order to show that they are very old-fashioned and you want to make them at least a bit more modernPerhaps it's time that we dragged this newspaper into the 1960s.
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