Definition of Over and over again

1. Adverb. Repeatedly. "The unknown word turned up over and over again in the text"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Over And Over Again

over-the-counter market
over-the-counter medicine
over-the-hill
over-the-shoulder bombing
over-the-shoulder boulder holder
over-the-shoulder boulder holders
over-the-top
over-the-topness
over-under
over-zealous
over a barrel
over again
over and above
over and out
over and over
over and over again (current term)
over and under
over easy
over here
over my dead body
over one's head
over open sights
over rate
over rates
over square
over the counter
over the counter security
over the counter stock
over the edge
over the hill

Literary usage of Over and over again

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"But certainly it would not be more beneficial than three-quarter per cent, salt solution, and it has been shown over and over again that the effect of this ..."

2. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"Yet would he brighten with a faint attempt at a smile when bread and • meat were put into his hands, and say, over and over again, " Ye 're a Christian, ..."

3. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1844)
"Everybody declared, over and over again, that the young general was without ambition, so afraid were they that he had it. When M. de Talleyrand had finished ..."

4. The War in Florida: Being an Exposition of Its Causes, and an Accurate by Woodburne Potter (1836)
"In all their councils this subject has been discussed, over and over again, and again reiterated even to the last day : recommendation after recommendation ..."

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