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odds and sods

idiom
Meaning

Miscellaneous items.


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.

Anchors to
Related idioms4entries
  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

    what are the odds

    Used to express surprise at an unlikely outcome.

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