break one's chops

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break one's chops (third-person singular simple present breaks one's chops, present participle breaking one's chops, simple past broke one's chops, past participle broken one's chops)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother.
    • 1960, Lenny Bruce, 1:24 from the start, in The Palladium:
      “And why don’t you stop breaking my chops, eh?”