dog around

dog around

1. To follow or pursue someone tenaciously. A noun or pronoun can be used between "dog" and "around." They hired a private detective to dog him around for a few weeks to see what he was up to. The player spent most of the game being dogged around the field by the other team.
2. To continue to be a source of frustration, difficulty, or hardship for someone. A noun or pronoun can be used between "dog" and "around." That conviction I got as a teenager has dogged me around my whole life.
See also: around, dog
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • build around
  • build around (someone or something)
  • flash around
  • blab
  • blab around
  • carry (someone or something) about
  • carry about
  • carry around
  • collected
  • find way around