how's that vs say again

how's that

phrase
  • Used to ask someone to repeat something 

  • Used to make an appeal to the umpire as to whether the batsman is out or not 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see how, is, that. 

say again

phrase
  • "What did you say?" or "Repeat what you have said." A polite formula used when one has not heard or understood what has been said. 

  • To repeat part of or entire message transmitted over the radio, used instead of "repeat" which is an artillery procedure word. 

How often have the words how's that and say again occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )