Groundhog day

[Boris Tatarenko]

Hello.

I suppose everyone knows what it means. So, can I use it as: "Oh my god, every day is the same day. It's like groundhog day".
If it's not correct. Do you have an expression?

Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm sure you can find people who don't know what it means but your sentence would be understood by anyone who does know the meaning.

 

[Gillnetter]

Hello.

I suppose everyone knows what it means. So, can I use it as: "Oh my god, every day is the same day. It's like groundhog day".
If it's not correct. Do you have an expression?

Thanks.

Groundhog Day, to me, means a celebration which takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on the second day of February every year. A groundhog is taken in front of the celebrants and if it is sunny the winter will last for six more weeks. If it is cloudy, the winter will end earlier. An expression which comes to mind was spoken by the Yankees baseball manager, Yogi Berra, "It's deja vu all over again".

 

[5jj]

The phrase "Groundhog Day" has entered common use as a reference to an unpleasant situation that continually repeats, or seems to.

Groundhog Day (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Gillnetter]

The phrase "Groundhog Day" has entered common use as a reference to an unpleasant situation that continually repeats, or seems to.

Groundhog Day (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Punxsutawney Phil (the name given to all of the various groundhogs displayed in Punxsutawney during the celebrations) may be of more importance to an American. I have seen the movie but, as of yet, have not heard the phrase used in the sense you point to - though it does make sense to me.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Hello.

I suppose everyone knows what it means. So, can I use it as: "Oh my god, every day is the same day. It's like groundhog day".
If it's not correct. Do you have an expression?

Thanks.

Either as a celebration or the movie, "Groundhog" and "Day" should be capitalized. Also, I think most people would capitalize the "G" in "God".

 

[SoothingDave]

Punxsutawney Phil (the name given to all of the various groundhogs displayed in Punxsutawney during the celebrations) may be of more importance to an American. I have seen the movie but, as of yet, have not heard the phrase used in the sense you point to - though it does make sense to me.

The entire theme of the movie is that one shallow man keeps re-living the same day, February 2nd, over and over. He basically has to live this day over and over until he learns to live not for himself, but in a selfless way.

"Groundhog Day" is thus not only the mild mid-winter holiday so famous in my home state, but also a pop-cultural shorthand for the phenomenon experienced in the movie. That of repeating the same experiences over and over.

 

[MikeNewYork]

The entire theme of the movie is that one shallow man keeps re-living the same day, February 2nd, over and over. He basically has to live this day over and over until he learns to live not for himself, but in a selfless way.

"Groundhog Day" is thus not only the mild mid-winter holiday so famous in my home state, but also a pop-cultural shorthand for the phenomenon experienced in the movie. That of repeating the same experiences over and over.

Do you remember the radio song that started each day?

 

[SoothingDave]

Do you remember the radio song that started each day?

Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba

I Got You Babe

 

[MikeNewYork]

Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba

I Got You Babe

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