be on the stump BrE
stump AmE *

Fed board members have also been on the stump, talking tough about keeping prices in check.

The managers of such funds are on the stump, spreading the message that their day has come at last.

Mr. Kennedy's biggest contribution, though, has been on the stump.

Everett, similarly enthusiastic, described it as 'being on the stump'.

They are on the stump for doubles, shaking the corporate hand that feeds them and, yes, said Murphy, even kissing babies.

Robert B. Reich is on the stump again.

The man who would be Chancellor, and polished performer of the small screen, was on the stump in his own constituency and having fun.

Now President Pervez Musharraf is on the stump.

Warning to Opposition Mrs. Aquino herself is on the stump each weekend.

No doubt Mr. Gore will be on the stump suggesting that he can do plenty more if he needs to.

"You're justworn out because you've been on the stump and nobody's listenedto you.

His delivery was stiff, just the way it was when he was on the stump, but he was game.

Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts is on the stump again.

'Nan is on the stump.

But as the candidates were on the stump, their image makers put the final touches on paid television advertising that was entirely under their own control.

It was the day before his 54th birthday, and Mr. Peretz was on the stump, preaching class solidarity.

Senator George V. Voinovich was on the stump this weekend for Mr. Bush too.

She'd be a far better asset being on the stump for him and other Senate candidates, rather than sucking up money, media attention, and organizational skills for herself.

In his drive for the presidency, he is on the stump calling Mr. Cardenas a liar and a tyrant who corrupted the party with authoritarian methods.

Rarely Refers to Notes When he is on the stump, the 64-year-old Mr. Lautenberg displays his skill as a speaker.

After Pias had been on the stump for three weeks preaching his gospel of religious hedonism, Yvette left him and attended a couple of Clunard's meetings.

A16 Louisiana's Governor is on the stump again, campaigning to hold his seat as the state economy suffers from oil industry problems and its unemployment rate at 14.7 percent, highest in the nation.

Maj. Gen. Eduardo Ibanez of the army, the regional Governor, is on the stump almost every day for his Commander in Chief, giving speeches and inaugurating various government projects and good works.

"It's great to be back," said a relaxed-looking Mr. Lazio, whose hair was a tad longer than it had been on the stump and whose voice had lost the trace of hoarseness it had toward the end of the campaign.

While the bill's fate is being decided in difficult closed-door negotiations in the Capitol, they and other G.O.P. hopefuls are on the stump, tying themselves in knots on "amnesty" and dancing farther out to the fringes of public opinion.

Only a few weeks ago, she would have been stumped by now.

"They really stumped us in a lot of things we were trying to do."

He gave her a cold look and stumped over to the table at once.

Many were stumped when asked who was the leader of their party.

An hour later, however, the two of them were still stumped.

Sometimes, even with all his experience, he is stumped a little there.

That stumped her, so she moved on to another subject.

And if a question stumped him, he could just say so: no one knows everything.

"Are you saying you'd be stumped if we had to get out of here?"

He turned and stumped out without giving me any further chance to talk.

But the project itself had me stumped, just too expensive.

I could not understand the fellow at all myself', and stumped away.

Well, nobody could think of anything to do- everybody was stumped, and set still.

When I ask him about this, he's stumped to explain why.

Not everyone, however, says they are stumped by the phenomenon.

Only one thing was missing and for a moment it stumped him.

She was stumped over how to translate the word computer.

Try to recall her great lines and you are stumped.

Why, then, use a word that so clearly stumps the experts?

That was a fact, and it stumped Tom for a minute.

She did not wait for a reply, and stumped out of the room.

Doctors were stumped so she took charge and found an answer.

He looked up as the President stumped in, his hair aggressively brown.

I stumped over to Tom's house and pounded on the door.

One stumped him for awhile, but then he got it.