Such-and-such

det, noun

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Definitions

Noun

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."

Determiner

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."

Synonyms

such or such thus and so

Example

"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."

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