get off one's case

[get off one's case] or [back] or [tail] {v. phr.}

To stop bothering and constantly checking up on someone; quit hounding one.

* /"Get off my case!" he cried angrily. "You're worse than the cops."/ Contrast: ON ONE'S CASE.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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