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again and again

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again and again

Constantly or repeatedly. The phone rang again and again until I finally answered it. I've told you again and again to pick your clothes up off the floor, and it's still a mess in here!

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again and again

repeatedly; again and even more [times]. He knocked on the door again and again until I finally answered.

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again and again

many times over and over (again) I've told you again and again that I don't know anything about what started the fight.

Related vocabulary: time after time

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again and again

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]

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again and again

Repeatedly; frequently.

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