needle (one)

informal To provoke one with teasing or goading remarks or acts. She just kept needling me with condescending comments about my sales numbers. You need to stop needling Tom. You may think it's all in good fun, but it's making him genuinely upset.

needle

tv. to annoy someone. Tom is always needling Frank.

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(as) sharp as a needle
a (difficult, hard, tough, etc.) needle to thread
a needle in a haystack
be like finding a needle in a haystack
be like looking for a needle in a haystack
be like threading a needle
be like trying to find a needle in a haystack
be on pins and needles
camel through a needle's eye, a
camel through the eye of a needle
cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye
darning needle
eye of the needle
get pins and needles
get the (dead) needle
get the needle
have pins and needles
like finding a needle in a haystack
like looking for a needle in a haystack
like looking for/trying to find a needle in a haystack
like threading a needle
move the needle
needle
needle (one)
needle (one) about (something)
needle about
needle candy
needle in a haystack
needle in a haystack, (like finding) a
on pins and needles
on pins and needles, to be
on the needle
pins and needles
put a rope to the eye of a needle
sharp as a needle
the eye of a needle
thread the needle
vaccinated with a gramophone needle
vaccinated with a Victrola needle

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