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odds and sods


Miscellaneous items.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.


SIMPLE

The drawer is full of odds and sods.

CONTEXTUAL

I spent the afternoon cleaning the garage and sorting through all the odds and sods left on the shelves.

COMPLEX

The antique shop was filled with an eclectic collection of odds and sods, ranging from rusted keys to forgotten Victorian postcards.


Related idioms5entries
  1. 01

    beat the odds

    To succeed despite being unlikely to do so.

  2. 02

    long odds

    poor chances; unlikeliness, improbability

  3. 03

    odds and ends

    Miscellaneous things; oddments

  4. 04

    sod off

    Go away.

  5. 05

    what are the odds

    Used to express surprise at an unlikely outcome.

Last updated August 10, 2026