harp at someone AmE informal

A few friends kept harping at me, that I should be charging for services of helping out people.

The last thing you need now is me harping at you.

Since he could remember, his mother had harped at his father about such things.

She'd harped at him, too, all the time when he was a kid and struggling with the differences between the languages.

Why are you harping at me about this?

I had managed to keep my dignity until now, but this confession will give him all the satisfaction he needs to keep harping at me.

"It had nothing to do with critics harping at her--it was a lack of attention to governing."

Crickets harped at him with violent strings.

There was I, harping at Maelgwyn's board when the war comes boomin' across my day like a discord.

It was hard enough to find time to stay in shape, even with Dr. McCoy harping at him constantly.

He was amazed he had put up with it so long - his stupidity, his acne face, his weak body, their voices harping at him.

Because the national agenda now is transcending, rather than remembering, the past, those obsessed with preservation are perceived at times as spoilers harping at reconciliation's doorstep.

So what Bush is harping at is a bit out of date," said Antonio Hill, climate change expert at charity Oxfam.

She harped at him about The Story of O, pointing out the similarities between the treatment of O and his treatment of K.

In all the long years of our association, you've constantly harped at me to make sure I got full value for every dollar, mark, yen and pound that I ever spent.

Obama specified ending tax breaks for oil and gas companies, and harped at some length about closing a tax loophole for corporate jets (yes, that really does exist).

Throughout the weeks since the Gringg had arrived, Mllaba harped at him that revealing the Gringgs' inherent evil would serve to propel him into his world's highest honour.

"Can you take out the trash?" one of them would say, and in no time, the other Poshes would be harping at me to take out the trash or fix the float ball in the toilet.

Advertisers are snipping away at their budgets while nervously harping at their media buyers to spend wisely, because they badly want to eke out the largest amount of big spenders from the least amount of placement in publications, radio and television stations.

Ceausescu harped at length about the dark, terrible days of the past when Dracula and his kind preyed on the warm of Romania to prevent his loyal subjects from considering the dark, terrible days of the present when he and his wife lorded over the country like especially corrupt Roman Emperors.

But while the Labour press office - as you'd expect - has been firing off reaction from ministers after every speech, there's a thick-skinned silence from Conservative HQ - with Baroness Warsi instead attacking Ed Miliband's reform proposals today and harping at Labour's bungled Fire control IT procurement yesterday.