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Idioms and Phrases

Make a persistent effort regarding; also, persistently urge someone to do something. For example, We'll have to keep after the cobwebs , or He won't get anything done unless you keep after him . Also see keep at , def. 2.

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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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