keep after

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

To speak to (someone) about something again and again; remind over and over again.

* /Some pupils will do sloppy work unless the teacher keeps after them to write neatly./

* /Sue's mother had to keep after her to clean her bedroom./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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