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},
{
"form": "holding over someone's head",
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{
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{
"text": "I get one parking ticket and he holds it over my head for six months."
}
],
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"To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat)."
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat)."
],
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{
"word": "hold over"
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat)."
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