harp
/hɑɹp/ verb C2- To repeatedly mention a subject, especially so as to nag or complain. · Why do you harp on a single small mistake?· Why do you harp on about a single small mistake?
- To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
- To play (a tune) on the harp.
He/she/it harps · Past harped · Past participle harped · -ing form harping
Verb forms
- Base form
- harp
- He/she/it
- harps
- Past
- harped
- Past participle
- harped
- -ing form
- harping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle.” “Forbear,” said the Miller to him, “harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.”
He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the jew’s-harp.
“Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her improvement on the harp, and pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table, and I think it infinitely superior to Miss Grantley’s.”
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