toujours perdrix

American  

[too-zhoor per-dree] / tu ʒur pɛrˈdri /

French.

1. too much of a good thing.

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Etymology

Origin of toujours perdrix

First recorded in 1810–20; literally, “always partridge” (the meaning “too much of a good thing” refers to how a person might tire of eating something they love if that is all they eat)

Example Sentences

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toujours perdrix

He forestalls in a few months what ought to be the effect of years; namely, the wearying a world soon nauseated with the toujours perdrix.

From Ernest Maltravers — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Toujours perdrix is bad providing all the world over; but a continual weak imitation of toujours perdrix is worse.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

Close to the equator, it has too much sameness of characteristic; toujours perdrix.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

I wish I could exchange our bill of fare occasionally with that French fellow who complained of having "toujours perdrix."

From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson

Did not Voltaire complain at Potsdam of "toujours perdrix" and make it one of his grievances?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir