here and there

English

Adverb

here and there (not comparable)

1. In, at or to various places; in one place and another.
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   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

     They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

     Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths.

2. (uncommon) From time to time; intermittently, occasionally.
   • 2009, John Bogard, The Message from the Cosmos, page 63:

     Before we study his ideas, it is useful to note here again that extraterrestrial powers intervened here and there in his life, as early as his birth, then his baptism […] .

   • 2011, R. E. Donald, chapter 23, in Slow Curve on the Coquihalla:

     Yep. Since nineteen sixty, or thereabouts. Missed a few years, here and there.

See also

• hither and thither

Translations

in one place and another

• Arabic: هُنَا وَهُنَاكَ (hunā wa-hunāka)

  Egyptian Arabic: هنا وهناك (hena we-hnak)

• Catalan: ençà i enllà
• Czech: sem tam
• Danish: her og der
• Esperanto: dise
• Finnish: siellä täällä (fi) (in, at); sinne tänne (to)
• French: par-ci, par-là (fr), çà et là (fr), ici et là (fr)
• German: hier und da (de)
• Greek: ενιαχού (el) (eniachoú)

  Ancient: ἐνιαχοῦ (eniakhoû)

• Hungarian: itt-ott, ide-oda (hu)
• Icelandic: hér og þar (is)
• Latin: passim, dispersē
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• Maori: kōtiwhatiwha, āputaputa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: her og der

• Polish: tu i tam, tam i sam
• Portuguese: aqui e ali
• Romanian: încoace și încolo
• Russian: и там и тут (i tam i tut), там и сям (tam i sjam), тут и там (tut i tam) (in, at); туда́-сюда́ (ru) (tudá-sjudá) (to)
• Scottish Gaelic: an siud 's an seo, thall 's a-bhos
• Spanish: aquí y allí (es)
• Swahili: huko na huko
• Swedish: här och där (sv)

from time to time — see from time to time

References

• “here and there”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.