toujours perdrix

Etymology
A. The phrase is not used in French.

Phrase

 * 1) Too much of a good thing.
 * 2) * 1886, The Pall Mall Budget. No. 941.–Vol. XXXIV.  Thursday, October 7, 1886, p. 3 (Google US):
 * "Perdrix, perdrix, toujours perdrix." "Roose, Roose, toujours Roose, Robson Roose."
 * 1) * 1886, The Pall Mall Budget. No. 941.–Vol. XXXIV.  Thursday, October 7, 1886, p. 3 (Google US):
 * "Perdrix, perdrix, toujours perdrix." "Roose, Roose, toujours Roose, Robson Roose."
 * "Perdrix, perdrix, toujours perdrix." "Roose, Roose, toujours Roose, Robson Roose."


 * 1) * 1848, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist. Edited by Harrison Ainsworth. Vol. 84. Being the Third Part For 1848, London, p. 40 (Google, Google):
 * Toujours Perdrix ! That's loving to satiety– There is no fun in life without variety !

Usage notes

 * The phrase is also used written in italics, e.g.:
 * 1878, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. Volume the thirty-first, London, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, p. 358 (Google US):
 * It is the old story of toujours perdrix, toujours la Reine.
 * 1894, If Men were Wise. A Novel. By E. L. Shew. In Three Volumes. Vol. II., London, p. 70 (Google US):
 * But one can't go on for ever bathing and for ever drinking champagne – ' perdrix toujours perdrix ' – one likes to stop before it gets to that.
 * 1898, The Month A Catholic Magazine. Vol. XCI. January–June. 1898, p. 162 (Google US):
 * Listening to their organs, one hears, not toujours perdrix, but toujours Post Office.
 * Listening to their organs, one hears, not toujours perdrix, but toujours Post Office.