Citations:if, as and when

English citations of if, as and when and if-as-and-when

Sentence-final

• 1944, Thomas Reed Powell, letter to William O. Douglas, quoted in Melvin I. Urofsky (1989), '"Dear Teacher": The Correspondence of William O. Douglas and Thomas Reed Powell'^[1], Law and History Review 7(2), page 364,

  No one cares about what a judge thinks, if, as and when. All that counts is what he says.

• 1988, Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun‎^[2], →ISBN, page 75:

  The whole thing, Tyne decided, would make a nice problem to mull over in his old age -- if, as, and when.

• 2001, The Man Who Wasn't There, spoken by Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub):

  We'll talk about appeals if, as and when.

• 1986, Roy Hoopes, “Introduction”, in 60 Years of Journalism‎^[3], →ISBN, page 113:

  Geyelin declined to hire Cain as an if-as-and-when editorial writer, and it appeared as if James M. Cain, like an old soldier — would never die, but just fade away.

Usage notes

• 1995, Brian A. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage‎^[4], →ISBN, page 414:

  An even worse manifestation of the phrase is if, as, and when […] One of the three words is suitable virtually wherever this phrase appears.

• 2002, Robert Hartwell Fiske, The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them‎^[5], →ISBN, page 192:

  if, as, and when A wretched redundancy