bang the drum

To voice one's support for something. Quit banging the drum for that candidate—he is simply not qualified for the job.

bang/beat the drum

to speak eagerly about something that you support (often + for ) Once again she was banging the drum for pre-school nurseries. The opposition parties are always beating the environmental drum.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Serina	sə-REEN-ə	English
Konstanty	kawn-STAHN-ti	Polish
Reinaldo	-	Portuguese, Spanish
SÁRi	-	Hungarian
Toma (2)	TO-mah (Croatian, Serbian)	Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Georgian
Ilona	EE-lo-naw (Hungarian), ee-LO-nah (German), EE-lo-nah (Finnish)	Hungarian, German, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech