harp on
Speech parts
1. harp on - Verb
2. harp on - Phrase
Meaning
harp on (third-person singular simple present harps on, present participle harping on, simple past and past participle harped on)
(transitive) To nag about; to complain incessantly or persistently request; to continue to bring up as a point of contention.
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Examples
Abang Johari, who is GPS chairman, said Umno parliamentarians would harp on religious issues which he felt was a personal matter between a person and God.
Harlan did not harp on money, but he is not naive, so in between all that, he was at least willing to indicate what Schill wouldn’t.
And maybe some people are doing that, that’s just something I really wanna harp on because it’s at the heart of what we do well.
I hired her to play harp on a record of one of my songs, “Darlin’ Maggie.”
It is a waste of time for people to harp on the past and to think that those propaganda lines of the past would help to forge a future."
It is due to the UPA-2’s mismanagement that no big investment had come to India in the industrial sector or even in multi-brand retail which the ruling coalition has sought to harp on as a booster to economic growth.