pound the table

English

To strike a table, often repeatedly, with a fist, gavel or similar blunt object.
(figuratively, law) To vehemently assert one's position.
There's an old legal aphorism that goes, "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table."
(finance) To promote one's products.

to strike a table

to vehemently assert one's position

to promote one's products

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