Synonyms

such and such

American

Or such-and-such

adjective

definite or particular, but not named or specified.

They turned out to be such and such kind of people.

noun

something or someone not specified.

if such and such should happen.

such and such Idioms

Not specified, unnamed and undetermined, as in They agreed to meet at such and such a time and place. [Mid-1500s]

Etymology

Origin of such and such

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Example Sentences

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This is 40 minutes of somebody naming another spot, another spot, then hanging up and calling back like, "I just thought about it. Such and such got the best . . ." That's the thing.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

Such and such a star was so many millions of miles off.

From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas

Such and such another, under the same conditions, was, on the contrary, a brilliant success.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

To which the guest would answer, "Such and such a thing passed."

From Talks on Talking by Kleiser, Grenville

Such and such like were the jesting observations bandied from one to the other, in all the earnest seriousness of truth!

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

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