Repeatedly, often, as in I've told you again and again, don't turn up the heat. This idiom uses repetition for the purpose of emphasis (as does its synonym, over and over). Shakespeare used it in Othello (1:3): "I have told thee often, and I retell thee again and again." [c. 1600]
again and again
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Meaning #1:
repeatedly
Synonyms: over and over, over and over again, time and again, time and time again
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