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 ...
Usage notes
Typically used in the collocations:
every Tom, Dick and Harry (corresponding to everybody)
any Tom, Dick or Harry (corresponding to anybody).
Mandarin: 張三李四/张三李四(zh)(zhāngsān-lǐsì), 张三李四(zh)(Zhāng sān Lǐ sì)(張 and 李 are common surnames, while 三 and 四 are the numbers three and four), 阿貓阿狗/阿猫阿狗(zh)(āmāo'āgǒu), 阿猫阿狗(zh)(āmāoāgǒu)(negative connotation)
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