to mention something unpleasant that happened in the past and that someone else does not want to talk about
I can understand she doesn't want to rake up the past, but if it has to happen, so be it.
Men would say `Like mother, like daughter, "would rake up all the old gossip about you and Will de Braose.
Newspaper journalists are always raking up scandalous stories.
That's surely someone hoping we'll rake up Robiglio's past during our investigation rather than a reference to the murdered girl.
Yeoman Jones looked the handsome dark-haired rake up and down.
rakes up
raking up
raked up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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