over and over again

English

Pronunciation

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Adverb

over and over again (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Repeatedly; again and again; many times.
   • 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

     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.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1992, Hugh Walpole, Jeremy and the Ruffians:

     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."

   • 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^[1]:

     That is something that I think of over and over again, a kind of mantra about why self-revelation is actually a political gesture.

Synonyms

• over and over; see also Thesaurus:repeatedly

Translations

repeatedly

• Esperanto: denove kaj denove
• Polish: wielokrotnie (pl), raz po raz (pl)