tårta på tårta
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Etymology
tårta (“cake”) + på (“on (can also mean "after")”) + tårta (“cake”)
Phrase
- too much of the same thing
- 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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