and then some

Idioms  

1. And considerably more, as in I need all the help I can get and then some, or The speaker went on for an hour and then some. This idiom may originally have come from and some, a much older Scottish expression used in the same way. [Early 1900s]

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Example Sentences

But most affected stocks gained it all back and then some after their crash diet 28 months ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each time, the stock market recovered and then some.

From The Wall Street Journal

"There's a lot of things that we saw in Sam that we loved, and he's lived up to those things -- and then some," Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald told AFP.

From Barron's

The drop erased all of the previous day’s gains—and then some.

From Barron's

“Right now, it would take a miracle March and then some, really throughout this entire region, to really bolster the snowpack.”

From Los Angeles Times