broken record

plural broken records

1. idiomaticSomeone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.

   to sound like a broken record

   3 more 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.

   1975, George Wickes, “A Natalie Barney Garland”, in The Paris Review, number 61

   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.

   2005, Mike Philbin, The Best of Him+chim+her

   Synonyms: stuck record

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.