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rake up the past

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  • rake over (old) coals (or rake over the ashes) — chiefly Brit. revive the memory of a past event. → rake …   English new terms dictionary

  • rake over the ashes — ► rake over old coals (or rake over the ashes) chiefly Brit. revive the memory of a past event. Main Entry: ↑rake …   English terms dictionary

  • rake over the ashes —    When people rake over the ashes, they discuss an unpleasant event which took place in the past.     My grandfather s business went bankrupt years go, but he still rakes over the ashes from time to time …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • rake over the ashes — to think about or to talk about unpleasant events from the past. There is no point in raking over the ashes now, you did what you thought was right at the time …   New idioms dictionary

  • rake over the coals — to talk about unpleasant things from the past that other people would prefer not to talk about. There s no point in raking over the coals all that happened twenty years ago, and there s nothing we can do about it now. (usually in continuous… …   New idioms dictionary

  • rake over something — ˌrake ˈover sth derived (informal, disapproving) to examine sth that happened in the past in great detail and keep talking about it, when it should be forgotten • She had no desire to rake over the past. Main entry: ↑rake …   Useful english dictionary

  • rake — rake1 [reık] n [Sense: 1 2; Origin: Old English racu] [Sense: 3; Date: 1600 1700; Origin: Origin unknown] 1.) a gardening tool with a row of metal teeth at the end of a long handle, used for making soil level, gathering up dead leaves etc ▪ a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • rake something up/over — revive the memory of an incident or period of time that is best forgotten I have no desire to rake over the past …   Useful english dictionary

  • rake over — ˌrake ˈover [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they rake over he/she/it rakes over present participle raking over past tense …   Useful english dictionary

  • rake — rake1 [rāk] n. [ME < OE raca; akin to ON reka, spade, Ger rechen, a rake < IE base * reĝ , to direct, put in order > RIGHT] 1. any of various long handled tools with teeth or prongs at one end, used for gathering loose grass, hay, leaves …   English World dictionary

  • The Country Wife — is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time …   Wikipedia

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