have a monkey on one’s back

tv. to have a drug addiction. (Drugs. Have got can replace have.) Gert has a monkey on her back.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shouhei	sho:-he:	Japanese
FerİDun	-	Turkish
Laoghaire	-	Irish
Pradip	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Nepali
Ottilie	o-TEE-lee-ə	German
Chelo	CHE-lo	Spanish