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Odds and ends

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Noun
  1. 1
    Miscellaneous things; oddments idiomatic, plural, plural-only

    "The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends."

  2. 2
    a motley assortment of things wordnet

Etymology

From a dialectal corruption of ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”). More at ord, end.

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