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then again
Idioms and Phrases
Also, but then . On the other hand, an opposite possibility. For example, I think it'll arrive tomorrow; then again, it may not , or We think you'll like this restaurant, but then again, not everyone does , or The play was a bit dull, but then she's a great actress .Example Sentences
“She’s not that kind of a person to kill somebody or drug somebody, but then again you don’t know who anybody is,” he said.
But then again, the show hasn’t had a good season since before the pandemic — virtually an eternity ago by both real-life and “Housewives” standards.
He’s seen the movie only twice; once in a rough cut and then again on an airplane.
In 2022, reservations were taken because of repairs to infrastructure, then again in 2024 to ease traffic on roads and trails.
It's so remarkable when you interview people in high school, then again when they reach the highest level in sports and discover they haven't changed much.
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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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