on-again, off-again

on-again, off-again
/on"euh gen' awf"euh gen', of"-, awn"-/
being in force or inoperative by turns, esp. spasmodically and unpredictably: an on-again, off-again romance.
Also, on-again-off-again.
[1945-50]

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