over again
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- phrasal verb
:
otra vez
- And then, you know, I had to do biology all over again to enter medical school.
- all over again
- start over again
- the whole process over again
It's when you keep doing the same things over again, but you expect a different result.
- It's when you keep doing the same things over again, but you expect a different result.
- If I were to start my channel all over again, this is what I would do.
- But if I had to do it all over again, it has to be the same way.
- And then, you know, I had to do biology all over again to enter medical school.
- Should we go over again the basic construction of a simple quantum field?
- You don't grow by staying safe or doing your same thing over again.
- I mean, this is the Matrix, you know, all over again.
- So there is if you ran the universe over again, is there?
Examples
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All set to start all over again.
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If I were to start my channel all over again, this is what I would do.
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Like if you had it to do over again, would you?
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If you had to do it all over again, would you still marry Mom?
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I'd have to start all over again.
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Now I'm gonna have to start all over again.
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OK, now we get to do it all over again with Ethernet.
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"Guess I would have to start all over again," she sighed.
Fiction book (1992) -
From running around and trying to control the fire, tomorrow I'll start all over again afresh.
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If I had the opportunity to start my project over again, I would make different choices.
Synonyms
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One more time
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One more time
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Again on another occasion
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Another time after something has already happened
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Morphology
The meaning 'another time, anew' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'over' in the relevant sense (from the beginning/finished and then again) combined with 'again' (once more). This compositional pattern is common and transparent to learners who know both words, so a B1 learner would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Over again may come from the picture of going over your work and doing it again. So it means to do something 'another time' or to start 'from the beginning'.