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root for
Idioms and Phrases
Cheer on, give moral support to, as in The fans were out rooting for their team , or I've been rooting for you to get that promotion . This expression may come from the British verb rout , which is used of cattle and means “bellow.” [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
Brown’s contributions will be closely watched by those rooting for players from smaller schools to come up big.
“When you watch ‘The Sound of Music,’” she tells Meyers later in the bit, “you have to root for the singing children and the other people.”
I said that I would certainly root for Democrats to win wherever possible and would do what I could to make that happen.
I will never root for or support the Dodgers again in any way, shape or fashion.
He warned you might not get into the real heaven if you did not root for the Dodgers.
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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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