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- 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 on (someone's) back
Persistently nagging or urging someone to do something.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| AnĐA | | - | Croatian, Serbian |
| Jerome | | jə-ROM | English |
| Lemuel | | LEM-yoo-əl (English) | Biblical, Mormon, Biblical Hebrew |
| Radim | | - | Czech |
| IstvÁN | | - | Hungarian |
| Linnaea | | li-NAY-ə | English (Rare) |