1. Home
2. Idioms
3. on back

on back

---

---

on your back

regularly criticizing you or trying to force you to do something My mom is always on my back about leaving my clothes lying around the house.

Related vocabulary: on somebody's case Opposite of: get somebody off your back

See also: back, on

on (someone's) back

Persistently nagging or urging someone to do something.

See also: back, on