"play the same tape" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plays the same tape",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "playing the same tape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played the same tape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played the same tape",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "play the same tape (third-person singular simple present plays the same tape, present participle playing the same tape, simple past and past participle played the same tape)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2001 August 29, Matthew Jukes, \"A German gem\", The Daily Telegraph, available,\nThere are things some people might wish to alter about [the restaurant] Die Jägerhütte (for myself, they could play the same tape for months and I still wouldn't slap a thigh)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mary Virginia Hall, Loving Is a Gift, iUniverse, page 17",
          "text": "I married a man much like my controlling stepfather. We tend to play the same tape until we see who we are.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Gary Chapman, Catherine Palmer, It Happens Every Spring, Tyndale House, page 54",
          "text": "All they do in church is play the same tape over and over. I could recite that stuff by heart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 January, Sastry G. Pantula, “My Trip to the Hill”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 55, number 1, page 56",
          "text": "We met a staff member, Pat, from Senator Dole's office first.... We had our message clear and crisp. We gave a couple of examples... . We indicated... . We talked about... . We thanked Pat and, as we walked to Senator Burr's office, congratulated each other... . We had a very good meeting with John from Senator Burr's office and played the same tape from our earlier meeting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To repeat exactly what one previously said or did."
      ],
      "id": "en-play_the_same_tape-en-verb-Vtxaw2g9",
      "links": [
        [
          "repeat",
          "repeat"
        ],
        [
          "exactly",
          "exactly"
        ],
        [
          "previously",
          "previously"
        ],
        [
          "said",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "did",
          "do"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To repeat exactly what one previously said or did."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-play the same tape.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/33/En-au-play_the_same_tape.ogg/En-au-play_the_same_tape.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/En-au-play_the_same_tape.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "play the same tape"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "plays the same tape",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "playing the same tape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played the same tape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "played the same tape",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "play the same tape (third-person singular simple present plays the same tape, present participle playing the same tape, simple past and past participle played the same tape)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2001 August 29, Matthew Jukes, \"A German gem\", The Daily Telegraph, available,\nThere are things some people might wish to alter about [the restaurant] Die Jägerhütte (for myself, they could play the same tape for months and I still wouldn't slap a thigh)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mary Virginia Hall, Loving Is a Gift, iUniverse, page 17",
          "text": "I married a man much like my controlling stepfather. We tend to play the same tape until we see who we are.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Gary Chapman, Catherine Palmer, It Happens Every Spring, Tyndale House, page 54",
          "text": "All they do in church is play the same tape over and over. I could recite that stuff by heart.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 January, Sastry G. Pantula, “My Trip to the Hill”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 55, number 1, page 56",
          "text": "We met a staff member, Pat, from Senator Dole's office first.... We had our message clear and crisp. We gave a couple of examples... . We indicated... . We talked about... . We thanked Pat and, as we walked to Senator Burr's office, congratulated each other... . We had a very good meeting with John from Senator Burr's office and played the same tape from our earlier meeting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To repeat exactly what one previously said or did."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "repeat",
          "repeat"
        ],
        [
          "exactly",
          "exactly"
        ],
        [
          "previously",
          "previously"
        ],
        [
          "said",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "did",
          "do"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To repeat exactly what one previously said or did."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/En-au-play_the_same_tape.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "play the same tape"
}