If he owned a large agency with a lot of employees to drum up business, I might buy it.
These days, many states are eager to drum up business overseas.
Even some Democrats have praised her efforts to drum up business for the state.
"Don't know why he's going on about it: must be trying to drum up business - he probably gets a percentage."
I hadn't expected Jamie to go drumming up business, though.
SO some agents are using that script to drum up business.
So they are trying to drum up business of their own.
Instead, it has been working hard to drum up business.
We don't because we've never had to drum up business.
That, in turn, led to questions about whether he was using the chairman's office to drum up business for his firm.
Idiome