expostulate about

expostulate about (someone or something)

To engage in a passionate discussion or argument about someone or something. Oh boy, steer clear of Uncle Ed if he's expostulating about politics again.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

expostulate about someone or something

 and expostulate on someone or something
to comment or argue intensely about someone or something. He always seems to be expostulating on something. Why can't he simply say "Yes" or "No"? Sam is expostulating on Bill's many shortcomings again.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • expostulate
  • expostulate about (someone or something)
  • expostulate on (someone or something)
  • steer clear of
  • steer clear of (someone or something)
  • steer clear of someone/something
  • steer clear
  • fire someone up
  • fire something up
  • fired up
References in periodicals archive
Before hurrying on, then, as theory and theorists have a penchant for doing, to explain the phenomenon, to say what it means about definitions of narrative, to expostulate about narrative across the media, to reflect on how it intersects with the concept of narrativity, to do any of the thousand other intellectual operations we're all so fond of, can we just hold our gaze on this plenty long enough to say, "Look at all that.
Just looking
In the West, far too many commentators expostulate about Islam who have no knowledge of Arabic.
THE WEST, MEDITERRANEAN ISLAM AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW BEGINNING