broken record
noun1
Idiomatic Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
- She repeated several little anecdotes or remarks about Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and George Antheil. Disconcertingly she kept asking me if I knew them, if I’d been in Paris then, what had happened to them and others, most of them dead. Her mind wandered, repeating itself like a broken record.1975, George Wickes, “A Natalie Barney Garland”, in The Paris Review, number 61:
- 1994, Deb M., Stepping Stones to Recovery from Codependency, Aaron Anderson quoting Ken Fisher, The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken Fisher In spite of reading all the materials on the Steps, talking to my sponsor, sharing at meetings, I felt like a broken record.
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- She was a broken record forever singing the same song, a lame, blind in one eye, fucked too often by life's injustice sufferer of the flesh.2005, Mike Philbin, The Best of Him+chim+her:
- to sound like a broken record
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.
- Related terms
- change the record