grouse at

grouse at (someone)

To complain or gripe at someone. Michael, as long as you have long hair, Grandma is going to grouse at you about it—you better get used to it.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

grouse at

someone or an animal Fig. to criticize someone or an animal directly to the person or animal. Stop grousing at me! Sharon is grousing at the cat again.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • grouse at (someone)
  • gritch
  • grouse
  • gripe about (someone or something) to (someone or something)
  • for (so) long
  • for long
  • go around Robin Hood's barn
  • will go a long way
  • long since
  • so long
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In the fall of 2007 and 2008, we trapped grouse at both areas and fit each bird with a leg band and radio-transmitter.
Fading drums: does hunting play a role in the decline of ruffed grouse in New York?
During the 1990-92 breeding seasons (last week of March to the third week of April), we observed male sharp-tailed grouse at six leks, each located less than 75 km from the others.
Endoparasites of northern sharp-tailed grouse, Tympanuchus phasianellus phasianellus, as related to age and position on the lek
For the past two years, DEC staff and a student at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry have conducted a fall/winter survival study of ruffed grouse at two locations in New York.
Ruffed grouse survival study