rake over
phrasal verbrake over something
- (informal, disapproving) to examine something that happened in the past in great detail and keep talking about it, when it should be forgotten
- She had no desire to rake over the past.
Definition of rake over phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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ripple effect
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