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break one's chops

verb

break one's chops

verb
1

Idiomatic, Slang To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother.

  • “And why don’t you stop breaking my chops, eh?”1960, Lenny Bruce, 1:24 from the start, in The Palladium:
Related terms
bust someone's chops, break one's balls

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