Meaning of broken record | Babel Free
Definitions
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Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance. idiomatic
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.
Equivalents
Español
disco rayado
Suomi
rikkinäinen levy
Français
disque rayé
Italiano
disco rotto
Русский
зае́зженная пласти́нка
ไทย
แผ่นเสียงตกร่อง
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.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.