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Idioms and Phrases

Express oneself in the same way or with the same words, as in Grandma forgets she has told us this story before and repeats herself over and over , or This architect tends to repeat himself—all his houses look alike . A well-known version of this idiom is the proverb History repeats itself , first recorded (in English) in 1561. For example, Her mother also married when she was 18—history repeats itself . [Mid-1800s]
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Example Sentences

To say more about the nest of the summer Resin-bee would be to repeat oneself.

To enlarge on this interesting subject would mean to repeat oneself.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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