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alt. (context idiomatic English) Particular items belonging to a large, diverse set, but items of the general kind of item indicated. det. (context idiomatic English) Particular items belonging to a large, diverse set, but items of the general kind of item indicated. n. (context idiomatic English) A wide range of actions, circumstances, characteristics, topics, or other items.
Usage examples of "this, that, and the other".
And, albeit each dwelt in his own castle, and the castles were ten good miles apart, it nevertheless came to pass that, Sieur Guillaume de Roussillon having a most lovely lady, and amorous withal, to wife, Sieur Guillaume de Cabestaing, for all they were such friends and comrades, became inordinately enamoured of the lady, who, by this, that, and the other sign that he gave, discovered his passion, and knowing him for a most complete knight, was flattered, and returned it, insomuch that she yearned and burned for him above all else in the world, and waited only till he should make his suit to her, as before long he did.
For so fairly have you hemmed me in with this, that, and the other pretty speech or the like blandishments, that you have constrained me to make nought of my former resolve, and, seeing that I find such favour with you, to surrender myself unto you.
In the morning when Calandrino, his head at length quit of the fumes of the wine, got up, and came downstairs and found that his pig was nowhere to be seen, and that the door was open, he asked this, that, and the other man, whether they wist who had taken the pig away, and getting no answer, he began to make a great outcry:—.
To gain it, he must have blaze, blood, and danger, even as a chemist requires this, that, and the other.
Well, I will suppose that some morning some one comes into my shop and says to me: 'Father Coppenole, here is this, that, and the other.
The tick tried this, that, and the other course, and got as excited and as anxious as the boys themselves, but time and again just as he would have victory in his very grasp, so to speak, and Tom’.
They discussed this, that, and the other way, and talked till the afternoon was far spent, then confessed that at present they could arrive at no decision.
They're not just honeycombs of classrooms, where students are labelled this, that, and the other, so they can get better jobs than their parents.
Mornings at school were the worst, when I talked with Trisha about this, that, and the other thing.
All she knew as a kid was that he was a professor of this, that, and the other, but he never seemed to go to work anywhere.