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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.

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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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