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

Altimeter has made back its earlier losses and then some.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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

“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

I weeded our garden, sold eggs from our coop, took odd jobs when I could find them, did every chore they asked of me, and then some.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate