gripe

Related to gripe: Gripe water, Gripe Sites

gripe about (someone or something)

To complain, often continually and in an irritating manner, about someone or something. I turned the thermostat up, so you all can stop griping about how cold it is in here, thanks. Michael, as long as you have long hair, Grandma is going to gripe about it—you better get used to it.
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gripe about (someone or something) to (someone or something)

To complain, often continually and in an irritating manner, about someone or something to someone or something else. Michael, as long as you have long hair, Grandma is going to gripe about it to you. Oh, go gripe about it to the school board then—there's nothing we can do here.
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gripe at (someone)

To complain, often continually and in an irritating manner, to someone. I turned the thermostat up, so you all can stop griping at me about how cold it is in here, thanks. Michael, as long as you have long hair, Grandma is going to gripe at you—you better get used to it.
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gripe to (someone or something)

To complain, often continually and in an irritating manner, about someone or something to someone or something else. I turned the thermostat up, so you all can stop griping to me about how cold it is in here, thanks. Michael, as long as you have long hair, Grandma is going to gripe to you—you better get used to it. Oh, go gripe to the school board about it then—there's nothing we can do here.
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gripe to (someone or something) about (someone or something)

To complain, often continually and in an irritating manner, about someone or something to someone or something else. I turned the thermostat up, so you all can stop griping to me about how cold it is in here, thanks. Michael, as long as you have long hair, Grandma is going to gripe to you about it—you better get used to it. Oh, go gripe to the school board about it then—there's nothing we can do here.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gripe at someone

to complain to someone. Stop griping at me! There is no need to gripe at your little brother.
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gripe one's soul

Inf. to annoy someone. That kind of thing really gripes my soul! John, have I ever told you that you gripe my soul?
See also: gripe, soul

gripe

(to someone or something) (about someone or something) to make specific complaints to someone about someone or something. Don't gripe to me about what she said to you! There is no need to gripe about the job to everyone.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

gripe one’s ass

and gripes one’s butt
tv. to annoy someone; to bother or irritate someone. (Usually objectionable.) You really gripe my ass when you act like that! That jerk really gripes my butt!
See also: ass, gripe

gripes one’s butt

verb
See gripe one’s ass
See also: butt, gripe

gripe one’s soul

tv. to annoy someone. That kind of thing really gripes my soul!
See also: gripe, soul
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • gripe about (someone or something)
  • gripe at
  • gripe at (someone)
  • gripe to (someone or something)
  • gripe to (someone or something) about (someone or something)
  • grumble at
  • grumble at (someone)
  • grumble
  • grumble about
  • grumble about (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
A la llegada de la gripe espanola a la Argentina (mediados de octubre de 1918) el pais se encontraba en una nueva etapa politica, en 1916 el partido Radical devino en vencedor de los comicios y puso en la presidencia de la nacion a Hipolito Yrigoyen, quien desbanco al liberal y conservador Partido Autonomista Nacional.
Hicimos una estimacion de la prevalencia de la infeccion por el virus de la gripe en todos los viajeros que llegaban, usando la prevalencia en los viajeros que recibieron los cuestionarios marcados y que proporcionaron muestras respiratorias.
Gripe attempts to give all of its users a powerful persona by displaying the user's "word of mouth" power.
GROUP GRIPE: You vowed never to speak to your ex-BFF after she blabbed about the bed-wetting probs you had as a kid.
Sgt Stephen Roberts said: "Our aim is to record all of your gripes.
La influenza o gripe porcina es una enfermedad respiratoria de los cerdos, causada por el virus de Influenza tipo A, el cual provoca brotes entre estos animales, con bajas tasas de mortalidad.
Esta gran familia viral comprende el VIRUs DE LA GRIPE A, responsable de pandemias; el VIRUs DE LA GRIPE B, causante de epidemias y el VIRUs DE LA GRIPE C, que provoca patologia respiratoria leve (resfrios comunes), sin mayor importancia epidemiologica.
"This is such a gripe of mine," says Voltaire, a musician and author of What Is Goth?
I made a list of tasks and hit the roof to look at gripe No.