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I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
Denise Mina

Meaning of "so-and-so" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SO-AND-SO

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SO-AND-SO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
So-And-So is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SO-AND-SO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of so-and-so in the English dictionary

The definition of so-and-so in the dictionary is a person whose name is forgotten or ignored. Other definition of so-and-so is a person or thing regarded as unpleasant or difficult.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SO-AND-SO

so far
so far, so good
so help me
so long
so much
so much for
so that
so there
so to speak
so what!
so-called
so-so
soak
soak test
soakage
soakaway
soaked
soaker
soaking
soakingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE SO-AND-SO

also
Aso
aviso
basso
Burkina Faso
Burkina-Faso
Cardoso
El Paso
espresso
expresso
just so
more so
or so
peso
Picasso
say-so
so
so-so
Treviso
verso

Synonyms and antonyms of so-and-so in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «SO-AND-SO»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «so-and-so» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of so-and-so

Translation of «so-and-so» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SO-AND-SO

Find out the translation of so-and-so to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of so-and-so from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «so-and-so» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

某某
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fulano
570 millions of speakers

English

so-and-so
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इतना और इतनी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

لذلك وكذا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

так и так-
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

isso e aquilo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তাই এবং তাই
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

telle ou telle chose
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

dan sebagainya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

soundso
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

これこれしかじか
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이러이러한 것
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dadi-lan-kaya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tầm thường
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மிகவும் மற்றும் அதனால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असे-आणि-त्यामुळे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

falan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

così e cosà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tak - i - tak
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

так і так-
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

așa - și - așa
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έτσι - και - έτσι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

so- en -so
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

så och så
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

så-og -så
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of so-and-so

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SO-AND-SO»

The term «so-and-so» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.483 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SO-AND-SO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «so-and-so» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «so-and-so» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about so-and-so

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6 QUOTES WITH «SO-AND-SO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word so-and-so.
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Daryl Hall
If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
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Hunter Hayes
There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'
3
Jill McCorkle
The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.
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Jonas Mekas
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.
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Denise Mina
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
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Lesley Visser
I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SO-AND-SO»

Discover the use of so-and-so in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to so-and-so and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Logicism and the Philosophy of Language: Selections from ...
By a "description" I mean any phrase of the form "a so-and-so" or "the so-and- so. " A phrase of the form "a so-and-so" I shall call an "ambiguous" description; a phrase of the form "the so-and-so" (in the singular) I shall call a "definite" description ...
Arthur Sullivan, 2003
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Informal Philosophy
... earth' and 'exists' and 'years': if you mean so and so, and so and so, and so and so, then I do; but if you mean so and so, and so and so, and so and so, or so and so, and so and so, and so and so, or so and so, and so and so, and so and so, ...
Avrum Stroll, 2009
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The Halakhah: An Encyclopaedia of the Law of Judaism
afterward, let Mr. So-and-so collect two hundred denars" if all of them had come together let him collect. And if not, he collects only in proportion. T. 9:8 He who says, "Hand over two hundred denars to Mr. So-and-so, and three hundred to Mr.
Jacob Neusner, 2000
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The Problems of Philosophy
is, in fact, the so-and-so, yet we do not know any proposition 'a is the so-and-so', where a is something with which we are acquainted. When we say 'the so-and-so exists', we mean that there is just one object which is the so-and-so.
Bertrand Russell, 2007
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The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
Thus a description will mean any phrase of the form 'the so-and-so' in the singular. We shall say that an object is 'known by description' when we know that it is 'the so-and-so', i.e. when we know that there is one object, and no more, having a ...
Bertrand Russell, 2009
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A Ninth Century Treatise on the Law of Trusts
If the settlor stipulated a preference to bring forward whoever he had named at the beginning of the waqf and said I give this charity to so and so, the son of so and so, this means he gives so and so all of his property. A charity is a waqf to God ...
Gilbert Paul Verbit, 2008
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Wallace Stevens and the Pennsylvania Keystone: The Influence ...
"Poesie Abrutie" The setting and theme transform dramatically in "So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch," an originary poem that withholds not Transport's summer, as does "No Possum," but the identity of "So-And-So." The poet's reluctance to ...
Thomas F. Lombardi, 1996
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Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza: Legal ...
In both groups the declaration of the groom (grantor) is introduced by the witnesses: "so-and-so son of so-and-so came before us and said" (e.g. n° 1) or " so-and-so son of so-and-so came before the elders and said to them" (e.g. n° 32).
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, 1998
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Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation and ...
David Rosand ('So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch', in Titian 500, pp. 101- 19) links the Venus of Urbino to the genre of marriage pictures. Rosand takes issue with 'reductivist' readings of the nude and, considering Titian's working methods,  ...
Paola Tinagli, 1997
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Providence and Evil
One and the same man may deny the doctrine of absolute omnipotence when the doctrine is clearly put to him, and yet reassure himself that God can certainly do so-and-so by using merely the premise of God's omnipotence. And McTaggart is  ...
Peter Thomas Geach, 1977

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SO-AND-SO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term so-and-so is used in the context of the following news items.
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Watchdog: Should you trust so-and-so? In most cases ... nope
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) building in Washington. The FTC says identity theft protection company LifeLock is misleading consumers about the level ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
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Share “The black president some worried about has...”
So-and-so is "acting brand new." Sometimes that's a reference to people behaving like they don't know old friends and family — that they have evolved past their ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
3
5 annoying phrases parents need to stop telling non-parents
It usually goes like this. “Ugh. You know what really bugs me? When so-and-so compares her dog to my kid. Or when so-and-so refers to their dog as their kid. «Salon, Jul 15»
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'In Bollywood People Work on a Film Because so-and-so Khan is the …
It's been eight years since his last film as a director, but Vidhu Vinod Chopra is not worried. His next, Broken Horses, is Chopra's debut effort in English and is ... «The New Indian Express, Apr 15»
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non sequitur. - American So-And-So [CLUBTRXX]
The track, titled “American So-And-So”, opens with a groovy melody that transports you straight to a sun-soaked retro pool party, piña colada in hand. The catchy ... «Your EDM, Mar 15»
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Ridley Scott, it's not about casting 'Mohammad so-and-so', it's about …
This week, Scott had the answer: it's all Mohammed so-and-so's fault. “I can't mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say my ... «The Independent, Nov 14»
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No Exodus for "Mohammad So-and-So from Such-and-Such" Says …
Director Ridley Scott cast a bunch of white actors to play Egyptians in his upcoming Moses bipoic Exodus: Gods and Kings. That's showbiz! It's a tale as old as ... «Gawker, Nov 14»
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Oops: Ridley Scott's Explanation Of Why 'Exodus' Isn't Racist …
“I can't mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott ... «Uproxx, Nov 14»
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Enough With This "We Are All So-and-So" Nonsense, White Folks
Enough With This "We Are All So-and-So" Nonsense, White Folks. If I see/hear/encounter/smell/touch one more instance of this “we are all” bull-pucky, I swear ... «xoJane, Jun 13»
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That's Dr. So-and-So to You
Julianne Malveaux, former president of Bennett College (shown here at a panel in New York), feels strongly that if men's academic titles are used, women's ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Sep 12»

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