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Yes, I bang on to my staff (talk endlessly to them) rather than bang my staff (have sex with them) ... or another colloquialism, to "bang my staff" which is a solitary activity that frankly you can guess from here.


I'm not sure you watched Arrested Development, but I was thinking about this scene where the character says he sees himself as the world's first analyst and therapist, analrapist for short.

He always says things that are non-sexual but have an almost sexual ring to them. And while I did understand the bang on to from context, it was exactly the kind of thing he would be saying. Together with the analyst and programmer, analpro for short, or something of the sort.


And I explained it because (as a native BrE speaker as I suspected the one you replied to was) it didn't have any such ring to me at all, it read perfectly naturally.

(I have seen Arrested Development fwiw. Didn't care for it, but I've seen it.)




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