Here and there
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In, at or to various places; in one place and another. not-comparable
"Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."
- 2 From time to time; intermittently, occasionally. not-comparable, uncommon
"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 […]."
- 1 in or to various places; first this place and then that; location pronoun wordnet
Example
More examples"Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."