To speak in a boring tone.
To speak continuously about something that is not interesting.
To emphasize on something that it puts other people off.
He kept harping on about something. I had stopped paying attention a long while back.
My history teacher gets too carried away even when talking personally. He has a habit of harping on and on.
Her daughter kept harping on about buying that toy but she did not budge.
I don’t like people that harp on about the past, it is better to live in the present.
He harped on money so much and look at him now, left with absolutely nothing.
He needs to understand that his daughters are now teenagers. He can’t just harp on about rules now.
There is no origin for this idiom
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