come again

[come again] {v.}, {informal} Please repeat; please say that again. — Usually used as a command.

/"Harry has just come into a fortune," my wife said. "Come again? " I asked her, not believing it./

/"Come again," said the hard-of-hearing man./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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