broken records

Noun

broken record (plural broken records)

1. (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

   Synonyms:

   stuck record

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.