take up for
verb1
To support, as in an argument; to defend the stance or character of.
- Soda was glaring at him. "Leave my kid brother alone, you hear? […] Soda always takes up for me.1967, S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders:
- Related terms
- take up cudgels
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