"hold over someone's head" meaning in English

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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "holding over someone's head",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "held over someone's head",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held over someone's head",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I get one parking ticket and he holds it over my head for six months.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat)."
      ],
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          "harp",
          "harp"
        ],
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          "remind",
          "remind"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat)."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hold"
        },
        {
          "word": "hold over"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
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    {
      "form": "holds over someone's head",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding over someone's head",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held over someone's head",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held over someone's head",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "hold"
    },
    {
      "word": "hold over"
    }
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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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        ],
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          "remind",
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        "(transitive, idiomatic) To harp on; to remind continuously (especially of a misstep or defeat)."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
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