needle
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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.
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needle
tv. to annoy someone. Tom is always needling Frank.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- (as) sharp as a needle
- a needle in a haystack
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- be like trying to find a needle in a haystack
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- darning needle
- eye of the needle
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- get the (dead) needle
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- have pins and needles
- like looking for a needle in a haystack
- like looking for/trying to find a needle in a haystack
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- needle in a haystack, (like finding) a
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- on pins and needles, to be
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- put a rope to the eye of a needle
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- the eye of a needle
- thread the needle
- vaccinated with a gramophone needle
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