bang on someone or something

bang on someone or something
bang on someone or something
to strike someone or something repeatedly. (Especially to beat on a person or a drum.) •

Please stop banging on that drum!

Max was banging on Lefty when the cops arrived.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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