be/go on at sb
UKto complain to someone again and again about their behaviour or to ask them to do something:
My parents are always on at us about having a baby.
She's been on at me to get my hair cut.
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Complaining
- beef
- bewail
- bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark! idiom
- cavil
- chunter
- complainant
- complaint
- groan
- grouse
- harp
- harp on (about sth)
- huff and puff idiom
- kick
- lodge
- make a noise about sth idiom
- nark
- protest
- quibble
- squeal
- whinger
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Urging & persuading