harp upon

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Some sense of the grimly-ludicrous moved me to a fretful laugh, as I replied, “I have looked over it. In Heaven’s name, don’t harp upon it!”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

And when once found, he would harp upon it, ringing all possible changes, keeping it insistently, mercilessly before the public.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber

And why did he harp upon this name Gessner, Richard Gessner!

From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir

And he shattered the still vibrating harp upon the rocks at his feet.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix

Dryden's translation: The praise of artful numbers I resign, And hang my harp upon the sacred pine.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander