tårta på tårta

Swedish

Etymology

tårta (cake) + (on (can also mean "after")) + tårta (cake)

Phrase

tårta tårta (idiomatic)

  1. too much of the same 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'.

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