one-note | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Having only oneopinion,outlook,tone, etc., especially as expressedrepetitively; withoutvarietyorrange.1971March 13,Michael Sragow, “Theatre: Look Back in Anger Tonight at the Loeb Ex”, inHarvard Crimson‎[1], retrieved25 July 2009:But Pope Brock plays him in such aone-notekey of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing.1992, Jane Creighton, “Bierce, Fuentes, and the Critique of Reading”, inSouth Central Review, volume 9, number 2, page66:The footnotes that attend Ambrose Bierce in the U.S. literary canon roughly place him as a minor writer of grotesque supernatural tales and trenchant war stories, a misanthrope, curmudgeon, a purveyor of stringing sarcasms, aone-notewit.2005, Anahid Kassabian, “Academic Frostbite (A Cautionary Tale)”, inWomen's Studies Quarterly, volume33, number3/4, page403:To his mind, there was only one right and true position on the question. This sort ofone-noteresponse is precisely the problem facing politically engaged academics in the U.S. at the moment.2009June 18, Mary Pols, “Year One: Jokes from the Stone Age”, inTime‎[2], archived fromthe originalon15 February 2013:The movie is one long snigger.[…]It might beone-note, but at least it's in the key of funny.2011June 3, Benjamin Mercer, “On ‘Drive Angry,’ the Schlocky Role Nicolas Cage Was Born to Play”, inThe Atlantic‎[3]:Moreover,Drive Angryoffers evidence that Cage hasn't recently beenone-notein his performances so much as in his choice of schlocky material.

Examples:

EN: How is your throat? Same as always, one-note.
ES: Ahora estará contenta, tiene a sus dos hijos con usted.
EN: I could act circles around that one-note hack!
ES: yo actuo mucho mejor que el aparato ese.
EN: It's a little one-note, eating the same thing every day.
ES: Es muy monótona, comemos lo mismo cada dÍa.
EN: It was one-note. Forced.
ES: era monocorde. muy forzado.
EN: You got... you're just a one-note pony, arent' ya s Why don't you mind your business, or I'll tell the cop
ES: Es lo único que sabes decir. Ocúpate de tus asuntos o le diré a la policía que estas violando la condicional.
EN: I don't know, milkShake. People see another food item, they'll start saying I'm one-note.
ES: Milkshake, la gente ve otra pieza de comida, y dirán que no tengo nada más.
EN: It's all I've talked about for so long, people think I'm a one-note guy.
ES: Llevo tanto tiempo hablando de ello que creen que solamente eso sé hacer.
EN: You are so one-note.
ES: Tu si que eres monomelodico.
EN: You're one-note Nancy today.
ES: Hoy eres una Nancy de una sola nota.
EN: You're very one-note today.
ES: Estás muy interesado hoy.
EN: - It's not just one-note.
ES: Hay muchos toques.
EN: And this ain't no Joey, you one-note fuck!
ES: Y esto no es Joey, maldito personaje monótono.
EN: It's such a one-note thing and it drives so many people to do so many ridiculous... So many problems--
ES: Es algo totalmente monótono pero empuja a muchísima gente a hacer tantas cosas ridículas...
EN: She's a one-note wonder.
ES: Ella es una maravilla de una sola nota.
EN: The only time that she was a one-note wonder was when she was in the movie One-note Wonder.
ES: La única vez que ella fue una maravilla fue cuando ella estuvo en la película One-note Wonder.

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