| Pestered, harried |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
15 Aug 2025 |
| Kept bothering |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
24 May 2025 |
| Bothered endlessly |
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| Pestered |
LA Times Daily |
18 Feb 2025 |
| Badgered |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Jan 2025 |
| Scolded constantly (6) |
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| Ed joined the gang but they found fault with him constantly |
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| Constantly worried at one (6) |
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| Kept on at one, and egg was scrambled (6) |
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| Pestered with demands; caused continual worry |
The Times Concise |
11 Sep 2024 |
| Bothered persistently with trivial complaints |
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| Found fault with constantly (6) |
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| Troubled horse starts to get every disorder |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
21 May 2024 |
| Found fault having been given bad horses |
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| Annoyed constantly |
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| Kept going on at poor mount with pike (6) |
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| Hen-pecked (6) |
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| Complained about the eggbeater and whisk (6) |
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| And egg scrambled when chided (6) |
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| Horse pike kept on at (6) |
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| Kept on criticising (6) |
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| Went on and on about scrambled egg and chips (6) |
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| Constantly berated (6) |
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| Scolded repeatedly |
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| Found fault constantly |
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| Reminded or urged constantly (6) |
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| Found fault with Ed and the gang |
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| Harped on at |
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| Pestered, badgered |
The Times Concise |
26 Aug 2023 |
| Kept bothering |
LA Times Daily |
12 Apr 2023 |
| Hounded |
LA Times Daily |
10 Aug 2022 |
| Pestered |
Universal |
03 Jan 2022 |
| Reminded a few too many times |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Nov 2021 |
| Kvetched |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Apr 2021 |
| Pestered |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Oct 2020 |
| Found fault with college head retiring over heartless joke |
Irish Times Crosaire |
21 Aug 2020 |
| Young hooligan goes round a horse, childishly worried |
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| Constantly worried |
The Times Concise |
02 Oct 2019 |
| Pestered |
New York Times |
10 Apr 2019 |
| Henpecked, badgered |
The Times Concise |
11 Feb 2019 |
| Pestered |
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| Went on a horse, say, in northeast Germany |
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| Pestered, and then some |
The Washington Post |
18 Feb 2017 |
| Complained and complained |
The Washington Post |
04 Aug 2016 |
| Get on someone's case for egg and mash |
Irish Times Crosaire |
29 Jan 2016 |
| Ate away (at) |
New York Times |
17 Jul 2015 |
| Ate away (at) |
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| Played the shrew |
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| Rode hard |
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| Badgered |
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| Was shrewish |
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| Rode |
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| Bugged |
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| Hounded |
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| Rode |
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| Was irritating |
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| Played the shrew |
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| Harassed |
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| Was a kvetch |
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| Acted shrewish |
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| Bugged |
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| Pestered persistently |
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| Annoyed persistently |
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| Henpecked |
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| Found fault |
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| Acted like Xanthippe |
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| Wearied with whining words |
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| Badgered. |
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| Annoyed by scolding. |
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