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      [Phrasal verb]  | "harp on" 


      1: to talk about (a subject) constantly or repeatedly in an annoying way

      [Verb]  | "harp (on)" 


      1: to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely;


        * e.g., " ... there were so many good things about the stage production that it seems churlish to harp on a couple of minor missteps "





       [ "Harping" ]

      1: To rag on. To make fun of. To get on someones case.

        * e.g.,  ... Joe "Billy you are an idiot I cant believe you did that" 

       [ "harp" ]

      1: An instrument that plays (posibly hauntingly)wonderful relaxing music.

        * e.g.,  ... I play the harp. So there 

       [ "harp" ]

      1: To talk or write about to an excessive and tedious degree; dwell on.

        * e.g.,  ... Okay, stop harping about it, I got the point the first fifty times you mentioned it. 

       [ "Harp" ]

      1: A harp is a nickname for an irishman living in america

        * e.g.,  ... american said: oi you Harp 

       [ "Harp" ]

      1: A beastly man with the biggest muscles anyone has ever seen. His beauty is unparalleled. But he steals bikes in his free time so beware.

        * e.g.,  ... Yo Harp's coming, hide the bikes! 

       [ "harp" ]

      1: A cunning name for the vagina

        * e.g.,  ... Would you like to strum my harp? 


       [ "harp" ]

      2: The classy lady's way of referring to her downstairs

        * e.g.,  ... Come play with the harp. 

       [ "harp" ]

      1: magical & beautiful.

        * e.g.,  ... your wizard-like beard is harp. 

       [ "Harp" ]

      1: A reed organ played with the mouth, a mouth-organ - commonly known as a harmonica due to the successful promotion of the mouth-organ makers M Hohner, who branded their product the harmonica. shortened to Harp from "the French Harp" an instrument played in the French quarter of new Orleans at the turn of the 19th century. Though diatonic in its tuning layout, the blues players 'bent' the notes (using changes in air pressure) to get their 'blue' notes and in so doing laid the foundation for the modern techniques that have led to it being played chromatically. It also can make possibley the widest sound pallet of all instruments and although it is often described as a toy, it is in fact one of the easyest instruments to voice but one that is almost as hard to play to vertuosi standard as it is to teach. As almost all happens inside the mouth, this fact has earnt it the nick name the 'blind harp'. The worldest most renound teachers are David Michelsen, who taught moret Jounior World Blues Harmonica Champions than any other teacher to this day, despite his retiring from competition teaching in 199 and Borrha Minivitch who taught his flow of Harmonica Rascles. Incedently they inspired Larry Adler who was told when he auditioned for Borrha at the age of 12 "kid you stink". Weather he did smell we can not say but it did spur him on to become one of the better known exponants of the slide harp or slide chromatic harmonicas of the 20th century.

        * e.g.,  ... "Little Walter sure blow a mean harp", When is a Harp not a Harp / when it's a Mouth-organ. It is also referred to by a broad number of slang names, some too earthy to publish but: lickin' stick, Gob-iron, tin sandwich, Rhythm stick, sidewalk Stradivarius are but a few. 

       [ "harp " ]

      1: an instrument with soul and passion...

        * e.g.,  ... playing with harp and soul.. 

       [ "harp" ]

      1: (1) A paddy, mick, Irishman. MIldly pejorative. Refers to the national instrument of Eire.

        * e.g.,  ... "I'm always sharp  


       [ "harp" ]

      2: (2) A harmonica or mouth organ.

        * e.g.,  ... When playin' the harp, 

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