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 can analyze all your corporate data to help you make better decisions about which products to launch, what expenses to cut, which trendlines competitors are seeing, and so forth.

From Barron's

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world” and so forth.

From Salon

It was the Little Shady which flowed into the Wabash which flowed into the Ohio and so forth.

From Literature

"I've talked to the people in Anchorage. I've given them the facts about the races your daughter has run, her age, and so forth. She is entered in the Iditarod."

From Literature

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

Related Words

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