all that jazz
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From jazz (“stuff”).
Phrase
[edit]- (informal, idiomatic) Everything else related to something; other similar things.
- He went to school to study math and science and all that jazz.
- 1964, “My Kind of Town”, Sammy Cahn (lyrics), Jimmy Van Heusen (music), performed by Frank Sinatra:
- My kind of town, Chicago is / My kind of razzmatazz / And it has all that jazz
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Jonathon Green (2024) “all that jazz”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang