hammer away at

Keep at something continuously, as in The reporters hammered away at the candidate. This phrase employs hammer in the sense of "beat repeatedly," a usage dating from the mid-1600s.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Spring	SPRING	English
Franciska	-	Hungarian
Jay (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Wenzel	-	German
Surya	SOOR-yah (Indonesian)	Hinduism, Indian, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Indonesian
Floretta	flo-RE-tah (German)	English, German (Rare)