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harp on
Idioms and Phrases
Dwell on; talk or write about to a tedious and excessive extent. For example, She kept harping on the fact that she had no household help at all . This expression is a shortening of harp on the same string , meaning “to play the same note over and over.†It was first recorded in 1518.Example Sentences
The former computer contractor for Jet Propulsion Laboratory tries not to harp on what would have happened if they’d kept sleeping.
“I’m not going to turn the page and forget about it. And I’m also not going to harp on this the rest of my life,†Fonti said.
Stewart continued to harp on a message he'd shared earlier the week, encouraging his fans not to despair.
In addition to his wife, who wrote the album’s lyrics, Gilmour enlisted his 22-year-old daughter, Romany, to sing and play harp on the LP; there’s also a track constructed around an old recording of Wright from 2007.
But again, with so many issues, hot-button issues, we don't harp on it.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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