Idiom
come again
Meaning
A polite formula used when one has not heard or understood what has been said, or to indicate surprise.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I did not hear you, could you come again?”
“The music was so loud that I had to ask him to come again when he told me his name.”
“When he suggested that we cancel the entire project, I paused and asked him to come again, as I could not believe my ears.”
Examples
simple
“I did not hear you, could you come again?”
contextual
“The music was so loud that I had to ask him to come again when he told me his name.”
complex
“When he suggested that we cancel the entire project, I paused and asked him to come again, as I could not believe my ears.”
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