From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishall over againall over againAGAINif you do something all over again, you repeat it from the beginning I had to write the essay all over again. → again
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all over again• At the police station they asked me the same questions all over again.• The bank nurse all over again.• The threatening phone calls started all over again.• There are still times, even after Jasper, when I have to catch on all over again.• The computer crashed and deleted all my work - I had to start the essay all over again.• There's no tape in the machine. We'll have to start the interview all over again.• And then they started it all over again.• At first, it was jobs all over again.• Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again.• A toy would have run down eventually, but Anna would undoubtedly start up all over again in the morning.• The prospect of writing the report all over again made me feel completely depressed.• It was Lillie Langtry all over again, the old ones said wisely.all over againall over againused to emphasize that you do the whole of something again from the beginning, or that the same thing happens again Their first plan had gone wrong, so they had to start all over again. We had quarrelled about the money before, and now it was happening all over again. → overExamples from the Corpus
all over again• And then they started it all over again.• At first, it was jobs all over again.• Men thus instructed often found it easier to get on with it than to try and explain the danger all over again.• The bank nurse all over again.• The threatening phone calls started all over again.• There are still times, even after Jasper, when I have to catch on all over again.• A toy would have run down eventually, but Anna would undoubtedly start up all over again in the morning.• It was Lillie Langtry all over again, the old ones said wisely. 