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once in a while
Idioms and Phrases
Occasionally, not very often, as in Once in a while I enjoy going fishing . [Mid-1800s] Also see every now and then ; from time to time .Example Sentences
“But every once in a while ... it happens at first base. There’s some weird spots the first baseman has to be.â€
"We don't want to be a team that every once in a while wins, or when people write us off we win a game," England captain Maro Itoje told BBC Sport.
Domingo: No, I was just doing FaceTime to my husband once in a while.
Even then, Nygaard says, Watkins was so naturally composed, so uncommonly put together for a teenager, that the coach Nygaard actually urged her to let out the frustration once in a while.
“Every once in a while, Southern California gets unlucky, and those three switches get flipped on at once.â€
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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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