this and that

1. Also, this, that, and the other. Various miscellaneous items, one thing and another, as in He said this and that about the budget, but nothing new or of great substance, or We spent all evening chatting about this, that, and the other. The first idiom was first recorded in 1581; the variant dates from the early 1900s.

Example Sentences

She told us she had been given no option except mastectomy: "I felt like I didn't have a choice. It was 'you're having this and that's all there is to it'."

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During a bull market, each new generation is apt to think it’s a genius, that the risks are low, that it is the first generation to understand this and that older people just don’t get it.

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"One has to ask themselves – is this a report for reports? We hope it's not because that will create more frustration when ladies are trying to get answers and closure in this, and that's just not going to happen until all these answers are on the table."

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“Everywhere you see pink, breast cancer this and that,” she said.

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Vic told me all this, and that he had just gone to visit them, had just given them $600, to at least get them paid up through the end of the month.

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Related Words

• odds and ends