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Meaning of broken record | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“to sound like a broken record”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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