Англо-український фразеологічний словник

див. A-675.

жарт. як звичайно, як завжди.

див. A-371.

груб. надмірно, надзвичайно, страшенно.

(тж. often and again; often and often)

дуже часто, багато разів;

As often as not he would go off to hunt up a pamphlet which was one of his treasures, and put on his spectacles to read from it (K. S. Prichard).

…Often and again, have I listened to the wind playing its music in the branches of the girded trees (J. Cooper).

He was often and often on board of the Young Rachel (W. Thackeray).

≅ заст. любить як вовк вівцю; любить, як кішка мишу.

[тж. as plain as saying (або speaking)]

все одно що сказати, немов би кажучи;

Мг. Osborne gave а look as much as to say, “Indeed, how very obliging” (W. Thackeray).

Presently Mr. Riach came in. He gave the captain a glance that meant the boy was dead as plain as speaking, and took his place like the rest of us (R. Stevenson).

розм. ≅ може коштувати життя.

1. стільки ж, так само, як;

Не was for ever pondering, pondering — one fact astonishing him quite as much as another — for he could not figure out how this thing he had come into — this life — was organized (Th. Dreiser).

2. як тільки;

якраз це, це ж, це саме;

І felt the utmost sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Micawber in this anxious extremity and said as much to Mr. Micawber, who now returned (Ch. Dickens).