such-and-such

See also: such and such

English

Alternative forms

• such and such

Pronunciation

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Noun

such-and-such (plural such-and-suches)

1. A placeholder or generic thing.

   It's a poor system, because if you want to do such-and-such, you must first find that function in a long and disorderly list.

   • 1941 June, “Great Northern 0-6-2 Tanks”, in Railway Magazine, page 256:

     […] it has answered numerous questions as to what such-and-such a locomotive designer would have done, to keep pace with increasing demand for tractive power, had he held office for just a little longer.

   • 2006, “Master of None”, performed by Beach House:

     We always rub our hands too much / We know the reasons, but such and such

   • 2016 March 21, Skip Moen, “About Skip”, in skipmoen.com‎^[1]:

     Every once in awhile, I get an email that questions my commitment to the Messiah, usually in the form of “if he believes such and such, then he must not believe that Jesus is God” or something like that.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:whatsaname

Related terms

• so-and-so
• so and so
• x-and-x
• x and x

Translations

generic placeholder

• Arabic: كَذَا وَكَذَا (kaḏā wa-kaḏā), كَذَا (kaḏā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 某某 (zh) (mǒumǒu)

• Esperanto: tio kaj alio
• Finnish: se ja se (fi)
• French: Untel (fr) m
• German: dies und das (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: δεῖνα m or f or n (deîna)

• Italian: tal dei tali m
• Japanese: 何々 (なになに, naninani)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: فِڵان و فیسار (fillan û fîsar)

• Persian: فلان و بهمان (fa) (folân o bahmân), چنین و چنان (čonin o čonân)
• Polish: taki owaki
• Portuguese: tal e tal
• Russian: то́-то и то́-то n (tó-to i tó-to), и то и сё n (i to i sjo)
• Spanish: tal o cual, tal y tal

Determiner

such-and-such

1. indefinite; some or other, not stated

   I am troubled by the rush of young researchers attempting to prove that females are not inferior to males in such-and-such an ability or such-and-such a trait, especially when it is by no means clear what difference it makes.

Translations

indefinite; some or other

• Bashkir: фәлән (fələn), фәлән-фәлән (fələn-fələn)
• Bulgarian: някой си (njakoj si)
• Finnish: se ja se (fi)
• Polish: taki owaki
• Portuguese: tal e tal
• Russian: тако́й-то (ru) (takój-to)

See also

• so-and-so
• thus and such
• thus and so

References

• “such-and-such”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.