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and then some

Idioms

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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and then some

The big screens are exactly that – and then some.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

He advanced to a runoff in an Oklahoma congressional primary this week, and then some unfortunate news broke about him.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026

The losses inflicted on the U.S. fleet in 1941 at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, in whose navy Mahan was required reading, were soon replaced, and then some.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

“It’s got a pretty good chance of being well above the El Niño threshold in a sort of modest way, and then some possibility that it’s far above,” he said earlier this week.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

He'd said brother to brother meant that and then some.

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson

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