Groundhog Day
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Groundhog Day¹
proper noun Groundhog's Day
- 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. The prominence of the groundhog as a popular figure in the country lore of the Eastern States is shown by his having been given a place with the Saints on the calendar, February 2 being widely known as "Groundhog Day." It is claimed that on this date the groundhog wakes from his long winter sleep an
Groundhog Day²
Where it comes from
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.
noun Groundhog Days
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A situation in which events appear to be repeating themselves in a cyclical fashion.
Jackson, working on production this summer, sounded very much as if he were missing the trilogy already: "Each movie has a very different tone, feel and structure so I've never really felt like I've been trapped in a Groundhog Day for seven years working on one project."
Similar: time loop
verb Groundhog Days · Groundhog Daying · Groundhog Dayed
- 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[…]
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name festival
| 中文 | 土撥鼠日 /土拨鼠日 Tǔbōshǔ Rì |
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| Français | jour de la marmotte |
| Deutsch | Murmeltiertag |
| Ελληνικά | Ημέρα της Μαρμότας Iméra tis Marmótas |
| Русский | День сурка Denʹ surka |
noun Translations
| Deutsch | täglich grüßt das Murmeltier |
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