| 单词 | every once in a while |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevery once in a while c. Originally U.S. every once in a while: from time to time, at intervals. ΚΠ 1831 Anti-Masonic Star (Gettysburg, Pa.) 9 Feb. The masonic papers..state every once in a while, that William Morgan is in Smyrna, up the Missouri, &c. and is not dead. 1849 H. Melville Redburn ix. 66 Every once in a while, the men went into one corner, where the chief mate could not see them, to take a ‘swig at the halyards’, as they called it;..‘to taper off’. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 14/1 And every once in a while you meet a tailored person who wears mannish clothes exceedingly well. 1960 V. Nabokov Invitation to Beheading xvi. 159 Every once in a while he would jerk his flabby cheeks and his chin. 2005 A. Masters Stuart xviii. 187 We spoke on friendly terms as neighbours, we would go around each other's house for a beer every once in a while. < as lemmas |
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