every so often

English

Adverb

every so often (not comparable)

1. Occasionally; intermittently; irregularly; now and then; once in a while.

   Check on the houseplants every so often to see if they need watering.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 321:

     But Raven knows where he's going. Occasionally, he reaches out, grabs her hand, but he doesn't yank her around even though she's going a lot slower than he is. Every so often, he looks back at her with a grin, like, I could hurt you, but I won't.

Translations

occasionally

• Dutch: van tijd tot tijd (nl), af en toe (nl)
• French: de temps en temps (fr)
• German: ab und zu (de)
• Greek: σποραδικά (el) (sporadiká), κατά καιρούς (katá kairoús), κατά διαστήματα (katá diastímata)
• Italian: ogni tanto (it), di tanto in tanto (it)
• Russian: время от времени (ru) (vremja ot vremeni)
• Spanish: de vez en cuando (es)
• Swedish: då och då (sv), lite då och då, med jämna mellanrum (sv)

See also

• every now and again
• every now and then
• every once in a while