have a monkey on one's back

"The disease of turning the ball over really puts a monkey on your back."

Once you get the monkey on your back there is no cure short of the grave.

"You know how they say you have a monkey on your back?"

If that's not good enough for you and the divine 'monkey on your back,' then fine.

"It's not a monkey on your back, it's a piano," he said.

But there is an even greater and perhaps more embarrassing challenge: announcing that the monkey on your back is - Geek alert!

Neurotic guilt is an everpresent monkey on your back that frequently results from simply asserting your right to be who you are.

Finding Diddy Kong puts the monkey on your back, and gives you access to a limited hover ability.

Music video by Aldo Nova performing Monkey On Your Back.

"Monkey on Your Back" is a single by the Canadian rock musician, Aldo Nova.

"Monkey on Your Back" (1998)

(The antidrug "Monkey," his current single, demands that his girlfriend choose between the "monkey on your back" and his affection.)

"I am sorry to put the monkey on your back, sir," Prime Minister Lee said with a wry smile, "but I disagree with Kim.

Aldo Nova did make some headway with the songs "Fantasy" and "Monkey on Your Back" from his Subject...Aldo Nova album.

When the only fast way you could get rid of the monkey on your back was to snap your spinal cord above that bunch of nerves, you were dealing with one heavy monkey.

His next album, Subject...Aldo Nova had a minor hit with "Monkey on Your Back," but his solo career flagged and he became a player and songwriter for other bands.

A vicious way that tosses the blood in your wife's face, at least initially, and gets rid of the monkey on your back and one of the people who knew you intimately enough to muck the deal.