every so often

Anglais

Étymologie

Composé de every, so et often.

Locution adverbiale

every so often \Prononciation ?\

1. Occasionnellement, de manière intermittente, de temps en temps.
   • The actual words are extremely hard to grip on to. You can hear the audience dutifully applauding every so often, from which I concluded that a rather undramatic cricket match was being played at the other end of the hall. — (David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 141)