break one's chops
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[edit]break one's chops (third-person singular simple present breaks one's chops, present participle breaking one's chops, simple past broke one's chops, past participle broken one's chops)
- (idiomatic, slang) To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother.
- 1960, Lenny Bruce, 1:26 from the start, in The Palladium:
- “And why don’t you stop breaking my chops, eh?”