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time after time

 and time and (time) again

repeatedly; over and over (again). You've made the same error time after time! Please try to be more careful! I've told you time and again not to do that. You keep saying the same thing over and over, time and time again. Stop it!

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time after time

on repeated occasions Time after time she was involved with men who did not appreciate her.

Related vocabulary: again and again

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time after time

  also time and time again

if something happens or is done time after time, it happens or is done many times Time after time we were left without electricity. I've told him time and time again not to bring those mice indoors.

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time after time

Also, time and again; time and time again. Repeatedly, again and again, as in Time after time he was warned about the river rising, or We've been told time and time again that property taxes will go up next year. The first idiom dates from the first half of the 1600s, the variants from the first half of the 1800s.

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time after time

Again and again; repeatedly.

See also: after, time