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again and again
Idioms and Phrases
Repeatedly, often, as in I've told you again and again, don't turn up the heat . This idiom uses repetition for the purpose of emphasis (as does its synonym, over and over ). Shakespeare used it in Othello (1:3): “I have told thee often, and I retell thee again and again.†[c. 1600]Example Sentences
But again and again events pop up to complicate and confound any apparently linear path towards it.
"If the government gives in to Trump's threats it will only encourage him to use the same bullying tactics again and again."
"We both work nearly 200 hours a month, and it is still a stretch. We're rejiggling finances again and again," he said.
The question about the ideal age to take a newborn into public spaces is raised again and again online by anxious new parents trying to balance their desires to protect and find normalcy.
At a school where she leads thousands, she found herself very much alone, mouth open, chest heaving, crying and screaming again and again.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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