and so forth

Idioms  

1. Also, and so on. And more of the same, also, and others. For example, At the mall, we shopped, had lunch, shopped some more, and so forth, or She planned to buy an entire outfit in blue—dress, shoes, hat, and so on. The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the early 1700s. Also see and the like.

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Example Sentences

It still feels like it's an on-edge lap and you're taking risks here and there and so forth.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

We actually found a social insight on TikTok, with people commenting that we need to enlist our boyfriends in boot camp, they’re bad gift givers, so on and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Et cetera, et cetera, and so on and so forth.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2026

The client solutions group is a fancy name for Dell PCs, notebooks, storage devices, and so forth.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

“But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Related Words

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