once

Related to once: Once Upon a Time
See:
  • (every) once in a while
  • a man can die but once
  • a word (once) spoken cannot be recalled
  • a word (once) spoken is past recalling
  • all (one's) Christmases have come at once
  • all at once
  • at once
  • be in two places at once
  • can't be in two places at once
  • Christmas comes but once a year
  • difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer
  • even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
  • every now and then
  • every once in a while
  • Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
  • Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
  • for once
  • fortune knocks once at every man's door
  • get the once-over
  • give (one) the once-over
  • give (someone/something) the once-over, to
  • give (something) a once-over
  • give somebody/something a/the once-over
  • give someone the once-over
  • give someone/something the once-over
  • give something a once-over
  • give the eye
  • Going once, going twice, sold!
  • if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times
  • if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times
  • measure twice and cut once
  • measure twice, cut once
  • now and then
  • once (the) word gets out
  • once a (something), always a (something)
  • once a priest, always a priest
  • once a something, always a something
  • once a whore, always a whore
  • once a..., always a...
  • once again
  • once again/once more
  • once and again
  • once and for all
  • once and future
  • Once bitten, twice shy
  • once hell freezes over
  • once in a blue moon
  • once in a lifetime
  • once in a while
  • once more
  • once or twice
  • once over lightly
  • once the dust has settled
  • once too often
  • once upon a time
  • once you go black, you never go back
  • once-in-a-lifetime chance
  • once-in-a-lifetime experience
  • once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
  • once-in-a-lifetime situation
  • once-over
  • once-over-lightly
  • One cannot be in two places at once
  • opportunity knocks but once
  • ride two horses at once
  • ride two horses at the same time
  • skin the bear at once
  • the once-over
  • the pitcher will go to the well once too often
  • when the dust has settled
  • you can't dance at two weddings at once
  • you can't sit in two chairs at once
  • you only live once
  • young once
  • you're only young once
References in classic literature
In despair she wandered about for days and nights, and at last, worn out by fatigue, she sank once more into a deep sleep, and dreamt exactly the same dream about the old witch.
But another rushing wave arose and dragged him under once more.
Yellow Fairy Book
"I never talk myself when I'm singing," he went on very gravely: "so oo shouldn't either." Then he tuned the hare-bells once more, and sang:
I silently pointed out to Bruno the best place to lead her to, so as to get a view of the whole garden at once: it was a little rising ground, about the height of a potato; and, when they had mounted it, I drew back into the shade, that Sylvie mightn't see me.
Sylvie and Bruno
Petersburg, darkness and mystery once more enveloped his whereabouts and actions, and in the Epanchin family the ice of silence once more formed over the subject.
The Idiot
The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her:
Fairy Tales
And I've known men who came here to be in an office for a year, and they cursed the place, and when they went away they took their dying oath they'd hang themselves before they came back again, and in six months you'd see them land once more, and they'd tell you they couldn't live anywhere else."
Moon and Sixpence
As a blind one did I once walk in blessed ways: then did ye cast filth on the blind one's course: and now is he disgusted with the old footpath.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
He came out at once in smoke, and then, having resumed his proper form, the first thing he did was to kick the vase into the sea.
Arabian Nights
With a half shriek of joy the old man forced a passage within, resumed at once his original bearing, and stalked backward and forward, without apparent object, among the throng.
Man of the Crowd
Once the woman turned her face upward toward the falling flier, and in the single swift glance Carthoris saw that it was Thuvia of Ptarth!
Thuvia Maid of Mars
Once or twice she stole a look at him, as though asking him, "Is it what I think?"
Anna Karenina
But as soon as he had once brought the axe down, his strength returned to him.
Crime And Punishment
Conceive his new position, for I lack words to picture it; conceive him condemned to return to that house, from the very thought of which his soul revolted, and once more to expose himself to capture on the very scene of the misdeed: conceive him linked to the mouldy cab and the familiar cabman.
Tales and Fantasies
They could not find anything, but once they heard a door bang and somebody scuttered downstairs.
Original Peter Rabbit Books