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labour the point en · VERB
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(UK, idiomatic) To continue to discuss or explain something excessively or repetitively to the point that it may bore or annoy the listener.
Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had. And not just from us! From our fathers and from our fathers' fathers.
Loretta: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah.
Loretta: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: All right, Stan, don't labour the point.
1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian (moving picture):
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rub it in