| 词组 | take up for (someone or something) |
| 释义 | take up for (someone or something)To show one's support for someone or something; to provide help or assistance to someone or something. A man on the bus took up for the driver when a woman began screaming at him for being behind schedule. My father-in-law and I don't get along very well, but it meant a lot to me that he took up for me like that. take up forSupport in an argument, as in To our surprise her father took up for her fiancé. [Second half of 1800s] take up for To support (a person or group, for example) in an argument. |
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