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Alternative forms [edit]
Tom, Dick, or Harry
- (idiomatic) Anybody or everybody; random or unknown people.
- We want the place to be accessible to any Tom, Dick or Harry that happens to find it.
- 1661, John Payne Collier, N D editor, An antidote against melancholy: made up in pills. Compounded of witty ...[1], published reprint, page 90:
- Here is Tom, Jack, and Harry:
Sing away, and doe not tarry.
Merrily now let's sing, carouse, and tiple.
- 1723, Charles Leslie, A short and easie method with the deists: Wherein, the certainty of the ...[2], page 12:
- ... and that there was no such Thing as Government in the World; and that Tom, Dick, and Harry, ay, every individual Man, Woman, and Child, had a Right to the whole World ...
Translations [edit]
anybody or everybody; random or unknown people
- Arabic: فلان وعلان (ar) (fulān wa-ʿallān), كل من هب ودب (ar) (kull man habba wa-dabba)
- Basque: Urlia, Sandia eta Berendia (eu)
- Bulgarian: Сульо и Пульо (bg) (Suljo i Puljo), куцо и сакато (bg) (kúco i sakáto)
- Catalan: En Pau, en Pere o en Berenguera (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 張三李四 (cmn), 张三李四 (cmn) (Zhāng sān Lǐ sì) (張 and 李 are common surnames, while 三 and 四 are the numbers three and four), 阿貓阿狗 (cmn), 阿猫阿狗 (cmn) (āmāoāgǒu) (negative connotation)
- Danish: Gud og hver mand (da)
- Dutch: Jan en Alleman (nl), Jan, Piet & Klaas (nl)
- Finnish: mattimeikäläinen (fi)
- French: Pierre, Paul ou Jacques (fr) m, n'importe qui (fr)
- German: Hinz und Kunz (de) m, (pejorative) Kreti und Pleti (de), Hans und Franz (de)
- Greek: κάθε καρυδιάς καρύδι (el) (káthe karydiás karýdi) (negative connotation)
- Hungarian: boldog-boldogtalan (hu), mindenki (hu), bárki (hu), akárki (hu)
- Italian: Tizio, Caio e Sempronio (it) m
- Japanese: 猫も杓子も (ja) (ねこもしゃくしも, neko-mo shakushi-mo)
- Korean: 개나 소나 (ko) (gaena sona)
- Maltese: Cikku l-Poplu (mt)
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- Norwegian: Gud og hvermann (no), Per, Pål og Askeladden (no)
- Persian: اره و اوره و شمسی کوره (fa) (Âre, Ure, Šamsi Kure)
- Portuguese: Fulano, Beltrano e Cicrano (pt) m, Fulano, Sicrano e Beltrano (pt)
- Russian: каждый встречный и поперечный (ru) (káždyj vstréčnyj i poperéčnyj), Иванов, Петров, Сидоров (ru) (Ivanóv, Petróv, Sídorov)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Пера, Мика, Лаза (sh), Марко и Трајко (sh), И Кунто и Панто (sh)
- Roman: Pera, Mika, Laza (sh), Marko i Trajko (sh), I Kunto i Panto (sh)
- Slovak: Joži or Džony (sk)
- Spanish: Fulano, Mengano y Sotano (es) m, cualquiera (es), Fulano, Zutano, Mengano y Perengano/Perensejo (es) (usually the first three only)
- Swedish: Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström (sv)
- Tamil: குப்பனோ சுப்பனோ (ta) (kuppanō suppanō)
- Telugu: అప్పారావు, సుబ్బారావు (te) (appārāvu , subbārāvu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: Ali Veli (tr), Ahmet, Mehmet (tr)
- Urdu: ایراغیرہ نتھو خیرا (ur) (era ġera, nathu, khera)
- Volapük: lusogem (vo)
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