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(Canada, US, colloquial, vulgar) Rapidly chasing or pursuing someone.
Then they saw him, his legs pumping, his face a mask of determination. "Go!" he shouted in a high voice. "They're on my ass!"
1987, Samantha Harte, Vanity Blade, Toronto, Ont.; New York, N.Y.: PaperJacks Ltd., →ISBN, page 243:Help! The cops are on my ass!
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(Canada, US, colloquial, vulgar) Tailgating someone.
Why is this guy on my ass? I guess doing ten over the limit isn't enough speeding for this moron.
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(Canada, US, colloquial, vulgar) Persistently urging someone on and putting pressure on them.
My mom's always on my ass about keeping my grades up.
I slept on his couch for a few days, then he started getting on my ass about looking for work. I said, 'For Christ's sake, Frankie, I just graduated. Can I just enjoy the moment?'
2012, Mark Anthony Rolo, My Mother Is Now Earth, St. Paul, M.N.: Borealis Books, →ISBN, page 121:They would see to it that I graduated, not by pulling strings as might have been done at other schools, but by staying on my ass just as a parent would to help me off the field as well as on the field.
2011, Harry Carson, Captain for Life: My Story as a Hall of Fame Linebacker, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 44:
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