ginning up
Manufacturing from nothing
Ginning up means generating or stirring up, often with implications of artificiality or manipulation: The campaign was accused of ginning up outrage over a nonissue.
The phrase suggests manufacturing something—controversy, enthusiasm, support—rather than letting it arise naturally.
They ginned up some excuse to leave early.
- exciteStimulate strong emotion
- fire upExcite into readiness
- manufactureMake goods industrially
- sensationalizeExaggerate for impact
- blow out of proportionExaggerate significance wildly
fabricate · cook up · trump up · rally · motivate · energize · rev up · exaggerate · galvanize · rile up · contrive · inspire · fan the flames · overstate · concoct · persuade · hype · amplify
activity/effort
ginning upsuppressing
Forcibly restraining or inhibiting
tamping down · quelling · squelching · dampening · downplaying