once more

once more (not comparable)

1. Again, a further time, once again.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door.

   • 1973, “Yesterday Once More”, in Now & Then, performed by the Carpenters:

     All my best memories come back clearly to me / Some can even make me cry, just like before / It's yesterday once more

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see once,‎ more.