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

Montgomery was killed and Arnold badly injured, and by the autumn of 1776 the British had recovered all the lost territory and then some, driving the Americans deep into present-day Vermont and New York.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

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

We have everything we need and then some luxuries.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez