From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnow nownow nowa) CALMused to make someone calm or comfort them when they are angry, upset etc Now now, don’t worry. Everything will be okay. b) especially British EnglishTELL/ORDER somebody TO DO something used when telling someone not to behave badly Now now, leave your sister alone. → now
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now now• It's now now; it's not then any more.• Me, me, me, only thought about now now now.now ... now ...now ... now ...now literary used to say that at one moment someone or something does one thing and immediately after, they do something else The eagle glided through the sky, now rising, now falling. → nowExamples from the Corpus
now ... now ...• The eagle glided through the sky, now rising, now swooping. 