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rev up

Increase the speed or rate of, enliven, stimulate, as in Bill revved up the motor, or They looked for ways to rev up the ad campaign. The verb rev is an abbreviation for revolution, alluding to the rate of rotation of an engine. The idiom dates from about 1920 and has been used figuratively since the mid-1900s.

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“Little bit of Neil Diamond,” he said as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra revved up the go-go self-improvement jive of “Crunchy Granola Suite.”

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Throughout “Andor” Season 2, we also watched the Empire slowly rev up its border policing — especially when it came to Ghorman.

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�� began as a childhood fascination eventually revved up into something much more.

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If the main parties are downbeat, Farage is all revved up: arriving on stage at his campaign launch on a tractor.

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“We must focus on revving up a transformed messaging machine for the new political paradigm,” Carville wrote.

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