get off someone's case
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[edit]Verb
[edit]get off someone's case (third-person singular simple present gets off someone's case, present participle getting off someone's case, simple past got off someone's case, past participle (UK) got off someone's case or (US) gotten off someone's case)
- (informal) To stop criticizing someone.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “get off someone s case” (US) / “get off someone s case” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “get off sb s case”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.