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over and over again en · ADV

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Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, not-comparable) Repeatedly; again and again; many times.
    • That is something that I think of over and over again, a kind of mantra about why self-revelation is actually a political gesture. 2019 June 30, John Williams, “‘I Was Done With All the Silences’: How an Academic Got Personal in ‘Notes to Self’”, in The New York Times:
    • It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
    • A big red-faced man next to Jeremy was crying over and over again: That'll teach him to meddle with our women." "That'll teach him to meddle with our women." 1992, Hugh Walpole, Jeremy and the Ruffians:
    • He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,—by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection. 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

Synonyms

over and over

Translations (3)

pl wielokrotnie (repeatedly) · pl raz po raz (repeatedly) · eo denove kaj denove (repeatedly)