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

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

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

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

Shooting is all very well, of course, for those who like it; and so is tennis; and so are early hours; but toujours perdrix.

From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe

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