| 1. | Monkey on your back | |
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To have an addicction, especially a drug addiction. Man, he's got a monkey on him back! He's so wasted!
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To have some very burdensome nuisance you have to put up with--in a sense wider than just a drug or other addiction. "That huge credit card payment is a real monkey on his back." "Trying to sell that white elephant must be a monkey on your back."
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To have a deep, uncontrollable desire to something such as Gamble, Smoke, or Drink. Man he has that Drinking monkey on his back, it is 9:30 in the morrning and he's already drunk.
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| 4. | Monkey on your back | |
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Severe relentless back pain one gets during opiate withdrawal. hardest part of detox will be the monkey on your back
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