such and such

Or such-and-such

adjective

1. definite or particular, but not named or specified.

   They turned out to be such and such kind of people.

noun

1. something or someone not specified.

   if such and such should happen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of such and such¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Idioms and Phrases

Not specified, unnamed and undetermined, as in They agreed to meet at such and such a time and place. [Mid-1500s]

Example Sentences

He said this was a cause of anxiety for residents: "You know, if you don't pay this money within such and such time, then their bed's gone."

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So, when we started playing these Doors songs again, we said, “Hey, why don’t we do such and such a song that we’ve never done before in person?”

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Instead of talking about life, life with such and such, life with birds, and your experience as a human with these creatures, it can often read very scientific.

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The situation has been nothing short of chaotic, with Zane Selvans, co-founder of Catalyst Cooperative, which works to “liberate open data about the U.S. energy system” — that is, to make public energy data easy to access, telling Salon in a video interview that the data preservation communities has had scares “on subsequent Friday afternoons, there have been frantic text messages or just rumors from folks that such and such data is going to go down.”

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These soft deadlines said the governor of the state should certify by such and such a date in the middle of December.

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