here we go again
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7.8
- idiom
- Informal
:
aquí vamos de nuevo
- Oh well, here we go again.
So I feel like here we go again.
- So I feel like here we go again.
- It feels like sort of like here we go again.
- And I thought, wow, I really, you know, here we go again, like going to be a disappointment.
- So if they are toxic and we lift our head and think Oh no, here we go again.
- And there was times when he would be, I know I was like, here we go again.
- You make the assumption he changed, she changed, she finally gets it and then you go back in and here we go again.
- I did that only because here we go again.
Examples
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I can't believe they are making us sit through the same lecture; here we go again.
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OK, so here we go again and I move on.
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Crap, here we go again.
Blog text (31) -
And I thought, wow, I really, you know, here we go again, like going to be a disappointment.
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Sharon: Here we go again.
Fiction book (2002) -
Uh-oh, here we go again.
Fiction book (2000) -
Oh no, here we go again with the same issues at work.
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Every time the project starts to make progress, something else happens; here we go again.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents ('here', 'we', 'go', 'again') transparently signal a repeated event or movement, so learners can infer repetition from the parts. However, the phrase functions as a conversational discourse marker expressing annoyance or resignation rather than literal motion, so the pragmatic, idiomatic use is not fully predictable from the words alone.
Etymology
The phrase here we go again comes from the simple picture of people getting ready to go or start something one more time. So, when the same problem or story happens again, people say here we go again to show 'annoyance' or 'resignation'.