broken record

English

Noun

broken record (plural broken records)

(idiomatic) Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
- 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.
Synonym: stuck record

to sound like a broken record
Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see broken,‎ record.

Related terms

change the record

Translations

Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance

Greek: κόλλησε η βελόνα (kóllise i velóna)
Italian: disco rotto m
Portuguese: disco riscado m, disco quebrado m

Spanish: disco rayado m
Tagalog: sirang plaka

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