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Stump

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To take to the stump. To roam about the country speechifying.

To stump the country. To go from town to town making [political] speeches.

“The Irish members have already taken to the stump.”—A Daily Journal.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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