VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Rake Over the Ashes

Meaning:

Restart a settled argument; examine a failure

Examples:

  • When they met each other again, ten years after the divorce, they both tried hard not to rake over the past.
  • The episode followed yet another round of raking over the ashes of Charles'marriage to Princess Diana.
  • When people rake over the ashes, they discuss an unpleasant event which took place in the past.