broken record
broken record noun: someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
Noun
broken record (plural broken records)
- 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
- In spite of reading all the materials on the Steps, talking to my sponsor, sharing at meetings, I felt 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
- Synonyms:
- stuck record
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.
broken record meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Thai
broken record in Tamil
- Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance
- கீறல் விழுந்த ரெக்கார்டு kīṟal viḻunta rekkārṭu
broken record in Tagalog
- Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance
- sirang plaka
broken record in Arabic
- Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance
- أُسْطُوَانَة مَشْرُوخَة
broken record in Thai
- Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance
- แผ่นเสียงตกร่อง pɛ̀n-sǐiang-dtòk-rɔ̂ng
Examples of broken record in a sentence
- to sound like a broken record
- 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:
Synonyms of broken record
Forms of broken record
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Questions about broken record
- What does broken record mean?
- Broken record means someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
- What is broken record in Tamil?
- Broken record in Tamil is கீறல் விழுந்த ரெக்கார்டு (kīṟal viḻunta rekkārṭu). See Broken record meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use broken record in a sentence?
- to sound like a broken record
- What part of speech is broken record?
- Broken record is a noun.
- What is the plural of broken record?
- The plural of broken record is broken records.
Words near broken record in the dictionary
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