labour the point
to try too hard to express an idea, feeling, or opinion, repeating it when this is not necessary:
Look, there's no need to labour the point - I made a mistake - I admit it!
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Saying again
- circle
- drum
- echo
- flog
- flog sth to death idiom
- go/run around in circles idiom
- go/run round in circles idiom
- hammer
- inculcate
- indoctrinate
- not hear the end/last of sth idiom
- parrot-fashion
- rake
- recapitulate
- regurgitate
- reiterate
- retweet
- tautology
- trot
- wheel
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