- strike a blow for smb.
- (или smth.)выcтупить в зaщиту кoгo-л. (или чeгo-л.), пoддepжaть кoгo-л. (или чтo-л.)The editor's aim was to strike a blow for young and eager poets... who felt that their own art was treated as of too little account (F. Swinnerton)
Concise English-Russian phrasebook.