get after (someone)

to criticize what someone does.

I get after my mother about what she eats because I really love her.

Related vocabulary: on your back, on someone's case

• the morning after the night before
• the mother from hell
• the mother of all
• the mother of all something
• the mot juste
• the movers and shakers
• the moving spirit
• then again
• the name of the game
• then and there
• the nature of the beast
• the new kid on the block
• the next rung on the ladder
• the nightmare scenario
• the nitty-gritty
• the nouveau riche
• the nuts and bolts
• the odd man out
• the odd one out
• the Old Bill
• the old-boy network
• the old country
• the oldest profession
• the oldest profession in the world
• the oldest trick in the book