and then some

Idioms  

1. 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

Battling the heat is serious business for UPS, too, which provides its drivers cooling gear, cabin fans, electrolyte drinks, water jugs and then some.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Fortunately Kane is fit and firing – and then some – but has Tuchel really got full faith in Watkins and Toney?

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Well, it recovered those losses and then some.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 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

Then some Joplin, who’s good, and then some Aaron Copland, who Mr. Russell said was his favorite composer even though he didn’t write anything for a flutist.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt