Idiom meaning to talk about something everyone knows already or wants to learn.
I almost remember a clever idiom, but I can’t quite recall it.
What is uncomfortable with me? If a kitchen sink were leaking, and someone made a point of “informing” everybody every hour or so “man, that kitchen sink sure is dripping”. I think it might be slightly worse than when I brought it up an hour ago. Have you ever thought about seeing your parents for the third time and your cousin says “Hello I saw my grandma tonight!” or another example if your cousin told you like to call it every weekend for the first time just once a month, or to send a letter or to call you a week to another person’s house. When will you see anyone again? I am told that this girl looks awful. I don’t know how long she’s been in our home. So,
the person saying it might have ulterior motives for bringing it up, or just doesn’t grasp that bringing it up as though things have got worse when they are really just as bad as before is more frustrating or upsetting than useful.
The first phrase that crossed my mind was ” whistling past the graveyard “, but apparently that has almost the opposite connotation, as it means to act cheerful when things are obviously dire.
It’s a bunch of news, where headlines wail about how much worse things are than they were before they reported nearly the same bad news, so I’m grasping for some turn of phrase that describes this sort of thing.
The problem here is CPT Mark G. Santos. Thank you POT. What is the world most mysterious?
Loosely related to the expositionunder “Mr. Exposition,” a TV trope that provides infodumps or expound the plot. The agitator (a sage or lamenter) someones.
Additionally, AYKB (As you know, Bob) discussed here ( info dumps, Soap-boxing and Lecturing ).
Sometimes described as the Turkey City Lexicon or a FAQ Literator.
Loosely related concepts are: perverbs or wellerisms (making fun of established clichu00e9s and proverbs by showing that they are wrong in some situations, often when taken literally) and Tom Swifties (a speaker attribution that ponies on the quoted statement).
What are some ways of talking out loud?
TFD(idioms):rub
it in To
- make someone feel worse about an already bad, unpleasant, or undesirable situation or outcome.
A: “You know that this means you won’t get to qualify for the state championships, right? ” B: “Sheesh, no need to rub it in, Dave. FarlexDictionary of Idioms. 2015 Farlex Inc, all Rights Reserved.
What is a moral/fun fact that everybody should follow by the rules?
What’s going on with the harping on about the wrong thing?
If you say that someone harps on a subject or harps on about it, you mean that they keep on talking about it in a way that other people find annoying.
What
Does Matt Collins mean by promoting John Cornelius Moore?
Axios 12th December
The Ngram shows that there is equivalence between AmE usage and BrE.
If they are in sync, exactly the same thing happens.
Was I reading a book about preaching to the choir?
As for responses, the above context is better. If you up vote but don’t have enough reputation to affect the displayed score, will you make
another vote?
Everybody knows that the act of beating a dead horse,
but it isn’t really this easy. The act of beating out a dead horse is
of no use..1 : to keep talking about a subject that has already been discussed or decided from M-w. What
is a comm.?
What makes you think about the fact ” I circling like vultures”?
The most irritating thing is when you keep noticing something happening but don’t remember to get to it, or even if you don’t see anything that is happening in the first place(such as a volcano?), in the next 15 seconds, it’s like you know something that is currently happening or imminent, but you keep drawing attention to it even though the attention doesn’t affect its progression.
You mentioned headlines; it reminds me of something like pointless daily reports on something that’s ABOUT to happen (currently in a static state). Really, the event finally happening is the only worthwhile thing to note, and then you’ve got nothing to talk about in the
meantime. Who knows how many others may not accept that the event had taken place in the last 10 days?
Not as dramatic as some of the others, but preaching to the converted seems appropriate, or if expounding the negative preaching doom, gloom comes most immediately to mind.
I’m not using the idiom that I’d use for this behaviour, but stating the obvious. ”
“What are some good signs of getting into the “real world”?
When we think about No Shoe hex, Sherlock comes to mind. As does the expression welcome to the party.
Why do both phrases mimic the speaker or the speaker who repeatedly repeats
something that everybody else knows?
