labour the point

labor the point

To talk about or emphasize something excessively and perhaps repetitively, usually to the extent that the listener becomes bored or annoyed. A: "I don't mean to labor the point, but I'm just worried that there won't be enough food at the party." B: "Yeah, we know, you've said that 10 times now." I'm only laboring the point because we still haven't reached a decision.
See also: labor, point
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

labour the point

If someone labours the point, they keep explaining something or emphasizing a fact even though people have already understood it. I don't want to labour the point but there it is. The truth, without labouring the point, is that one can lead a good and fulfilling life without children.
See also: labour, point
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

labour the point

explain or discuss something at excessive or unnecessary length.
See also: labour, point
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

labour the ˈpoint

continue to repeat or explain something that is already clear: I think you’ve said enough — there’s no need to labour the point.
See also: labour, point
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • labor the point
  • drag on
  • drag on (someone or something)
  • federal
  • a federal case
  • breakneck
  • belt and braces
  • brace
References in periodicals archive
I think she succeeds--resisting the urge to labour the point, but also finding more realistic solutions to problems caused by financial differences between her characters.
Labour the point AS A Labour voter all my life, I'd welcome a second independence referendum to put the issue to bed once and for all.
I don't want to labour the point, but after Zoe Ball's sparkling stand-in job at the weekend the producers have a really big decision to make next year.
"I don't want to labour the point, but we don't have what a lot of people have got, but we don't half make up for it in other ways.
You don't need me to labour the point. As for football management, so for football betting: "The key to the truth is in knowing how to interpret and manage the data."
YOUR columnist, Rex Makin, continues to labour the point of traffic congestion in Liverpool City Centre, and the vast number of near-empty buses exacerbating the problem.
I don't want to labour the point because we lost the game but it was a penalty to us before it even got to that point."
WHILE I don't want to labour the point about the gates at Eston cemetery, I feel I must reply to D M Earnshaw's letter.
Fellow columnist Barry Gibson keeps banging on about these, so I'm not going to labour the point, only to say that there's an obvious solution to the dispersal of hordes of spotty hooligans on street corners and outside shops.
Sorry to labour the point - but the other reason I want Portsmouth to win the FA Cup is because it will shove Harry Redknapp one step closer to being England manager.
I KNOW I'm not the first to highlight this issue, and I don't want to labour the point, but I am frequently saddened by the behaviour of Cardiff schoolchildren who pay little regard to those who have to share the local shops and other amenities with their unruly antics.
I don't want to labour the point but after Zoe Ball's sparkling stand-in job at the weekend Zoe Ball's sparkling stand-in job at the weekend the producers have a really big decision to make the producers have a really big decision to make next year.
I don't want to labour the point, but it's in games like this that Xabi Alonso will be really missed.
NOT wishing to labour the point made at length on radio phone-ins and message boards, but had we played our strongest team we would have had the edge over Blackburn and won.
"I know we labour the point, but everything is about the team.