again and again

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

The episode was worse because again and again, Reform has had to boot out some recently elected councillors for unsavoury or downright offensive views they have expressed.

From BBC

I quickly found a few favorites that I return to again and again.

From The Wall Street Journal

Massive tree trunks, though they looked like toothpicks from the air, slammed again and again into the bridge.

From Literature

"The idea behind decriminalization was one simple thing: to stop all of us from going to jail again and again and again," he said.

From Barron's

The titular St. John Fox is a writer, and in his stories the female characters die again and again.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• frequently
• once again
• regularly
• repeatedly