often : Idioms & Phrases


Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of

  • prep. phr., owing to; on account of. Obs. or Low. Eng. "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.
Webster 1913

every so often

  • adverb occasionally
    every now and then.
    • every so often she visits her father
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more often than not

  • adverb usually; as a rule
    by and large; generally; mostly.
    • by and large it doesn't rain much here
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