Groundhog Day

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Etymology

From the title of the film Groundhog Day (1993), in which a man is forced to live out the same day over and over in a time loop.

An annual festival held in Canada and the USA on February 2 in which the arrival time of…
An annual festival held in Canada and the USA on February 2 in which the arrival time of the spring season is predicted by whether or not a certain groundhog can see its shadow.
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A situation in which events appear to be repeating themselves in a cyclical fashion.
- Every time I go out I gotta keep my cool and watch my step / It's Groundhog Day when I wake up / 'Cause I find I'm next to you in bed
- She'd spend ages buying and wrapping presents and never got bored with it like Aunt Maddie did. Aunt M said doing Christmas cards year after year made her feel like she was trapped in a groundhog day.
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To live out a situation in which events appear to be repeating themselves in a cyclical…
To live out a situation in which events appear to be repeating themselves in a cyclical fashion.
- When Dis told her about groundhog daying, named after the old movie, she'd underestimated the way the experience would play out for her, going through the same conversations over again, trying different gambits but ending up in the same[…]

No curated loop yet for Groundhog Day. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA