tårta på tårta

Swedish

Etymology

Literally: cake on cake.

Phrase

tårta på tårta (idiomatic)

  1. too much of a good thing
  2. a superfluous repetition, a tautology
    Det är lite tårta på tårta att tala om ”ISBN-nummer”, eftersom N:et i förkortningen redan står för ordet ’nummer’.
    It is a bit superfluous to talk about "ISBN number", since the N in the abbreviation already stands for the word 'number'.

Synonyms
  • kaka på kaka
  • tautologi
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