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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

They have been too used to hanging in Ireland to make it piquant: "toujours perdrix" is a saying which applies in this as in many other cases.

From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Samuel Lover

"I am: 'Variety is charming,' says the proverb; and here you know it is toujours perdrix!"

From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Amelia Alderson Opie

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 Edward Wilson Landor

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton