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Meaning: (idiomatic)Someone or something that constantlyrepeatsitself, causingannoyance.Synonym:stuck record1975, George Wickes, “A Natalie Barney Garland”, inThe Paris Review[1], number61: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 abroken record.1994, Deb M.,Stepping Stones to Recovery from Codependency, Aaron Anderson quotingKen Fisher,The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken FisherIn spite of reading all the materials on the Steps, talking to my sponsor, sharing at meetings, I felt like abroken record.2005, Mike Philbin,The Best of Him+chim+her:She was abroken recordforever singing the same song, a lame, blind in one eye, fucked too often by life's injustice sufferer of the flesh.to sound like abroken record; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seebroken,record.
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