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!
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Max was banging on Lefty when the cops arrived.
Dictionary of American idioms.
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