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rally around
Idioms and Phrases
Join in a common effort, as in When Mom broke her leg the entire family rallied around to help . This idiom gained currency with George F. Root's famous Civil War song, “The Battle Cry of Freedom,†which urges troops to rally round the flag that goes with them into battle. [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
"People rally around him, what he represents and how he behaves".
The little penguin becomes a kind of mascot, a very cute creature for them to rally around and a therapist of sorts.
And I think it's particularly helpful when you have individuals like myself who were able to find success in congressional districts where the district was won by Trump in 2016 and you were still able to win over and persuade individuals of all different political outlooks to rally around your vision, to rally around your value set, because you were able to make a genuine connection with those people, irrespective of political differentiation.
Friends have tried to rally around her, including setting up a GoFundMe account.
If we can rally around the solutions we know work, we can make homes affordable for millions of U.S. families.
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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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