over and over
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1.0
- idiom
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una y otra vez
- She practiced her presentation over and over until she felt confident.
- over and over again
- repeated over and over
- same thing over and over
Hear the same thing over and over, over and over.
- Hear the same thing over and over, over and over.
- And she's been saying this over and over for years.
- when your actions are causing losses over and over and you keep repeating them.
- We, we just kept on playing his tape over and over because he was so funny.
- They they've tried over and over for thousands of years.
- Why am I flying around the entire world over and over speaking to this subject?
- Repentance isn't doing the same sin over and over and enjoying it and asking for forgiveness.
- And they spend time together over and over with that.
- And that process over and over will make for great writing.
- It's just multiplication is just do an addition like over and over, right, right.
Examples
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His sister had driven them all crazy practicing it over and over again for a recital.
Fiction book (1990) -
You just keep saying the same thing over and over but it's not gonna change anything.
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We, we just kept on playing his tape over and over because he was so funny.
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So for me, this is just the same show over and over, right?
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Yes, so we can watch it over and over again.
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The worst part of it was he kept asking me over and over again, why?
Fiction book (1991) -
We watched it over and over.
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Information scientists have shown over and over that in such an environment, lies win.
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We've seen this over and over again.
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Sometimes teachers get stuck doing the same thing over and over because they don't have other ideas.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
382
1.0
It happens again and again
268
1.0
Happens many times
255
1.0
Many times on different occasions
73
1.8
Very often on many occasions
47
1.8
Happens again and again
3
3.5
Again and again in the same way, often causing boredom or annoyance
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4.3
Happens again and again at regular times
Antonyms
How Often
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'repeatedly' is directly signalled by the duplication of the adverb 'over' (over + and + over), so a learner who knows the meaning of 'over' can infer that the action happens again and again. This kind of reduplication/iterative pattern (compare 'again and again') is common in English and other languages, making the expression immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
The adverb over and over comes from the simple image of the word over happening twice, as if you do the same action again and again, like listening to a song many times or walking the same path. So it means 'repeatedly' or 'again and again'.