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labor the point

British pronunciation/lˈeɪbə ðə pˈɔɪnt/
American pronunciation/lˈeɪbɚ ðə pˈɔɪnt/
to labor the point
[PHRASE]
1

to describe or stress something excessively when it is already understood

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1You already know if it's a feature you want or not, so I'm not gonna labor the point too much other than to say that it's still a bit of a bummer.
2By Rollinat is much shorter than the Breville one that's because Rollinay cut all the repetition from the poem all together and it just doesn't labor the point that it's a text driven by nostalgia in both its content and form he just does it differently and much more simply so let's tune in and hear this for ourselves
3I mean you don't need to labor the point.
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