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cheer on
Idioms and Phrases
Encourage, as in The crowd was cheering on all the marathon runners . Originating in the 1400s simply as cheer , this usage was augmented by on in the early 1800s.Example Sentences
The two women have kept in touch since that first meeting, with Ms Gosling attending a half-marathon in Edinburgh to cheer on Ms Hutton.
As his inheritors have taken over, Rocky has focused on his fashion deals with Puma and Ray-Ban, on his acting gig in an upcoming Spike Lee movie and on his relationship with Rihanna, whom he frequently — and endearingly — turns up in public to cheer on, as at her Super Bowl halftime show in 2023.
In wrestling, there is a "heel" character, who portrays the villain, and a "face" who is the hero in the ring and who the crowd normally cheer on.
Online leftism, especially since Biden secured the Democratic nomination in 2020, has earned a reputation for being dour and nihilistic, eager to cheer on the pratfalls of the Democratic Party.
People from all those threads of Sandoval’s career were at Cal State Northridge to cheer on their champion.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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