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(idiomatic) Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.

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broken record

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idiomatic

Japanese Meaning

いつも同じ話や態度を繰り返し、聞く人をうんざりさせる人や物。 / 同じことを絶えず繰り返すために、しつこさや陳腐さを感じさせる対象。

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When she keeps bringing up the same excuse, she becomes a broken record at meetings.

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彼女が同じ言い訳を繰り返すと、会議では同じことを何度も言う人になってしまう。

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(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.

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

broken records

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