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Idiom idiom

thus and such


A placeholder or generic name for something.

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


SIMPLE

He told me to buy this and such at the store.

CONTEXTUAL

The instructions were vague, simply telling us to adjust this and such until the machine worked.

COMPLEX

The witness provided a rambling account of the evening, mentioning this and such in a way that made the timeline impossible to reconstruct.


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    thus and so

    A generic thing; a placeholder name.

Last updated August 10, 2026