once in a while

Part of speech: 2adv.

偶尔

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Part of speech: 2adv.

偶尔

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This is a English–Chinese dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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once in a whileEnglish›UyghurGetWord Corpus once in a whileEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary

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Once bitten twice shy.Once bitten twice shy.Once bit twice shy.Once bit twice shy.once for ado once for ado once for all once for all once in a blue moon once in a blue moon once in a way

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Is once in a while a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, once in a while is tagged as 2adv..

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