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Idioms and Phrases

Support, prop, as in The new law was designed to shore up banks in danger of failure . This expression derives from the noun shore , meaning “prop,†a beam or timber propped against a structure to provide support. The verb shore dates from 1340 and was first recorded in a figurative context in 1581.
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Consumer Watchdog has called on State Farm Mutual to instead shore up the subsidiary’s capital position.

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If, on top of that, they need to shore up Social Security, they could raise taxes even further, perhaps to a level unprecedented in post-war years.

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That slender margin was shored up on Tuesday in special congressional elections in Trump's political heartland of Florida.

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The dispute is over Birmingham City Council plans to downgrade some staff and reduce their pay as part of wide-ranging measures to shore up the troubled authority's finances.

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So Europe has a fair bit of catching up to do if it is to even come close to shoring up its defence and security.

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