get after

[get after] {v.}, {informal}

1. To try or try again to make someone do what he is supposed to do.

* /Ann's mother gets after her to hang up her clothes./

2. To scold or make an attack on.

* /Bob's mother got after him for tracking mud into the house./

* /The police are getting after the crooks in the city./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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