hound someone

hound someone

1. To hunt, chase, or pursue someone relentlessly. Police hounded the suspect for days, pursuing him as far as the border to Mexico, where he was finally arrested.
2. To badger, hector, or pester someone, especially persistently or relentlessly. I wish my boss would stop hounding me about that report. The press hounded the president about the country's involvement in the foreign war.
See also: hound, someone
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • hound (someone) from (some place)
  • hound (someone) out (of some place)
  • hound from some place
  • hound out
  • hound out of
  • hound or an animal down
  • hound down
  • be hounded (by someone or something)
  • in hot pursuit
  • in hot pursuit (of someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Is it appropriate to hound someone out of their position or is it appropriate to react in the way UCL did and ask someone to resign or threaten to sack them?" Feminist and professor Mary Beard said: "I'd like to smack his bottom, give him a piece of my mind and keep a very close watch on him if he is grading applications.
Trouble with Hunt's joke was that it didn't help; Heather
By this strategy, candidates can draw fire from liberals (or conservatives) and wait for the other ideological camp to reflexively spring to their defense--insisting that barbs from David Letterman, of all things, can hound someone from politics.
Being led down the garden path