词汇 | time and time again |
释义 | Idiom time after time and time and (time) again Theme: TIME repeatedly; over and over (again).You've made the same error time after time! Please try to be more careful!I've told you time and again not to do that.You keep saying the same thing over and over, time and time again. Stop it!I have told you time and again: don't put wet garbage in the trash can! Idiom time and time againtime and (time) again very often.Time and again I have had to remind my son to study before going out with his friends. time and (time) againRepeatedly; on multiple occasions. Why do you continue to trust John when he has lied to you time and again? Time and time again, they have violated the rules, yet you have taken no action against them. time and time againRepeatedly, often. This version of the earlier time and again, or again and again, dates from the late nineteenth century. Evelyn Waugh used it in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957): “. . . envying painters who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again.” |
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