THIS AND THAT Definition & Meaning

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this and that

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.

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"She's so busy with her own stuff I think she'd be sick to death of me asking 'can you help me with this and that?'"

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You should lean into this and that.’”

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“The fact that anybody can be made to do this, and that we all have the mechanism to make this happen, is something that I find to be a really normalizing aspect of this work.”

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“That’s how I kind of look at it. We’ve got to have a scrum too, on the other side, and we have a cadence where we all go at once. It’s not like you hard count and this and that, where now you’re getting us, or myself, jumping over the pile thinking that they’re about to snap the ball.”

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"I hear it all the time as a Manchester United fan from Essex. Glory hunter this and that," Cook tells BBC Sport.

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