Thesaurus / monkey on one's back
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synonyms for monkey on one's back
- coercion
- obsession
- preoccupation
- urgency
- constraint
- demand
- drive
- driving
- duress
- duty
- engrossment
- exigency
- force
- hang-up
- necessity
- need
- prepossession
- pressure
- urge
- have on the brain
- tiger by the tail
- pressure
- restraint
- coercion
- compulsion
- driving
- duress
- goad
- hang-up
- impulsion
- motive
- necessity
- repression
- spring
- spur
- suppression
- violence
- a must
- impelling
- no-no
- albatross
- cross
- debt
- duty
- guilt
- handicap
- hindrance
- impediment
- load
- millstone
- obstruction
- responsibility
- saddle
- weight
- worry
- ball and chain
- thorn in one's side
- compulsion
- delusion
- enthusiasm
- fascination
- infatuation
- mania
- passion
- phobia
- preoccupation
- attraction
- case
- complex
- craze
- crush
- fancy
- fetish
- hang-up
- must
- neurosis
- phantom
- thing
- ax to grind
- bug in ear
- concrete idea
- idée fixe
- one-track mind
- something on the brain
- tiger by the tail
On this page you'll find 132 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to monkey on one's back, such as: bag, bent, craving, dependence, enslavement, and fixation.
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How to use monkey on one's back in a sentence
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANAges back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINBut the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTWith a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERShe was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSDrowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONOff went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSA few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
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