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Idiom

odds and sods

Meaning

Miscellaneous items.

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

Examples

“The drawer is full of odds and sods.”

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

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

Examples

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.”

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