Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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A lot of people will harp on all that.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Williams will harp on how the young outfielder is keeping the game simple and playing within himself.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2015
Do not resemble those who will harp after lucre and show themselves unmindful of the ties of relationship: that wolflike maternal uncle of yours and that impostor of a brother!
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
Yolande gave voice to the general feeling: “It is ever the worst of these mountebanks, that they will harp on a dull jest.”
From The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
My dear man," he cried, "you will harp on that one point.
From The Grell Mystery by Frank Froest
