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the harping
verb
To repeatedly mention a subject.
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Don't listen to all the harping from the family.
Both wanted to be Tim Sheens' replacement, the campaigning grew competitive and the harping in the media constant.
The basic plot might have turned up on a network sitcom (some of the harping on body parts is Seinfeldian), but Holofcener doesn't do slapstick.
Think of the harping on about the "special relationship" – not so much special, as the only one possible for two such done-up wallflowers.
But viewers saw not the happy warrior so much as the harping warrior as Mr. McCain needled Mr. Obama about his relationship with an "old, washed up terrorist," William Ayers, the group Acorn (he said a voter fraud scandal was "destroying the fabric of democracy"), and Hugo Chávez.
But the 20th round was two years ago; and there is little evidence that Chinese leaders see the harping on human rights in private exchanges as more than an irritating quirk, like the British fondness for talking about the weather.So the version of Mr Cameron's visit to China believed by many observers is one in which he has swallowed a big chunk of humble pie.
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The harp echoes itself.
That she plays the harp.
Until the harp is mentioned.
She plays the harp, not the guitar.
Does either of them play the harp?
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