take up the cudgels (English, verb)
expansion: take up the cudgels (third-person singular simple present takes up the cudgels, present participle taking up the cudgels, simple past took up the cudgels, past participle taken up the cudgels)
Senses:
glosses: To engage in a contest.
glosses: to make a defence for someone or something; to intercede supportively.
tags: idiomatic
raw_tags: followed by on behalf of or for
Forms:
form: takes up the cudgels
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taking up the cudgels
tags: participle
present
form: took up the cudgels
tags: past
form: taken up the cudgels
tags: participle
past