stuck record
English
Etymology
Suggesting the situation where a gramophone needle slips and repeatedly plays the same portion of a vinyl record.
Noun
stuck record (plural stuck records)
- (figuratively) A person who repeatedly says the same thing.
- Synonym: broken record
- 1997, Lyn Andrews, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series (volume 28, page 60)
- These conversations seemed dictated to him by something outside of him. He was a stuck record.
- 2010, Aliya Whiteley, Light Reading
- I backed against the door as Lena took a tiny step forward, her body curving towards Phil. She thanked him again – she really was a stuck record – and he shushed her again.
- 2015, Lesley Thomson, The Detective's Secret
- Frost was a stuck record. 'He said it in passing, I ignored him, felt like saying his whole life was a mistake, now I see he was trying to tell me something.'
Translations
broken record — see broken record