stuck record

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Suggesting the situation where a gramophone needle slips and repeatedly plays the same portion of a vinyl record.

Noun[edit]

stuck record (plural stuck records)

  1. (figurative) 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[edit]

broken record — see broken record
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