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odds and ends
noun
- miscellaneous items, matters, etc.
- fragments; remnants; scraps; bits.
odds and ends
plural noun
- miscellaneous items or articles
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Word History and Origins
Origin of odds and ends1
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Idioms and Phrases
Miscellaneous items, fragments and remnants, as in I've finished putting everything away, except for a few odds and ends . This expression may have originated as odd ends in the mid-1500s, meaning “short leftovers of some material” (such as lumber or cloth). It had acquired its present form and meaning by the mid-1700s.Discover More
Example Sentences
So when they got home her godmother went to her odds-and-ends drawer.
We're to start—report says—at the end of the week, and I must be sent up to collect a few service odds-and-ends.
Very frequently the odds-and-ends corner of the garden is the most attractive feature in it.
A grated floor formed a small chamber immediately under the roof, where baskets and odds-and-ends are stowed away.
Poor little gentlefolk, the odds-and-ends of existence, the pence and threepenny bits of human life!
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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