come again?

Idioms  

1. What did you say? as in Come again? I can't believe you said that. This expression takes the literal meaning of the phrase—return—to ask someone to repeat a statement, either because it wasn't heard clearly or because its truth is being questioned. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s]

---

Example Sentences

“I will come again tomorrow,” I said.

From Literature

She’s not surprised the film’s themes — the rise of authoritarianism, the persecution of minorities — feel contemporary now: “When I started this, in 2015, there were the first signs that these types of things would come again in the near future,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

Isak's chance will certainly come again, but while the record £125m summer signing is sidelined with a broken leg, all he can do is watch and admire his fellow forward.

From BBC

I had no idea what had brought them to these parts, but if they’d come once, then they could come again.

From Literature

“Some of our mothers’ stories,” she said, “told of Marik—the Man Who Said No to the World. They told what he did. And some said that the Immortal would come again to the dryads. I did not imagine that Immortal would come to me.”

From Literature

Related Words

• echo
• recite
• rehash
• reiterate
• renew
• replay
• restate