dredge sth up
— Phrasal Verb with dredge /dredʒ/ verb [T]Definition
› to talk about something bad or unpleasant that happened in the past: The newspapers dredged up details about the singer's unhappy childhood.
(Definition of dredge sth up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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