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

"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

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

Change of flavour is absolutely necessary, not merely as a matter of pleasure and comfort, but of health; toujours perdrix is a true proverb.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner

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

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