- beef\ about
- v. phr.To complain about something.
Stop beefing about your job, Jack. You could have done a lot worse!
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beef about — {v. phr.} To complain about something. * /Stop beefing about your job, Jack. You could have done a lot worse!/ … Dictionary of American idioms
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