broken record

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broken record (plural broken records)

  1. (idiomatic) Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
    Synonym: stuck record
    • 1975, George Wickes, “A Natalie Barney Garland”, in The Paris Review‎, number 61:
      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.
    • 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.
    • 2005, Mike Philbin, The Best of Him+chim+her:
      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.
    to sound like a broken record
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken,‎ record.

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