Idiom for a speech with redundant information [closed]
What idiom can be used to name an action when a person tells a lot of redundant information?
EDIT: To be more precise I am trying to describe an action when a person speaks about the subject but there is also a lot of redundant information.
Circumlocutions captures that meaning. Where people talk generally in circles or with a lot of fluff. I am also partial to saying that they speak with a low signal to noise ratio, which is to say they say a lot, but the useful amount (signal) is way less than the useless amount (noise).
cir·cum·lo·cu·tion ˌsərkəmˌləˈkyo͞oSH(ə)n/ noun the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive.
That might be an unnecessarily redundant tautology or battology that is long-winded, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, verbose, duplicative, effusive, garrulous and wordy despite having been mentioned before in a supererogatory, superfluous, gratuitously excessive, needlessly repetitious, loquacious and circumlocutory way while reiterating what has already been spoken or written.
"He has a habit of repeating himself more than once."
This isn't an idiom, but I would describe it as unnecessarily verbose.
If you are impatient with someone's long repetitive explanation (and they aren't your boss) you might tell them to:
- get to the point
- boil it down for me
- just give me the highlights
- give it to you in a nutshell
- just give you a rundown
- I'm just looking for the 10-thousand-foot view
Some other variations of "summarize" in this related question here.
A few other similar idioms I can think of:
- Jack, you're just rattling like an empty wagon (talking about nothing)
- Sally, now you're just talking in circles (repeating herself, sometimes implying she is confused or contradictory)
- Boy, Mr. Burns was sure beating a dead horse about last month's bad sales figures. We get it, sheesh. (Continuing to talk about something that has already been made clear)