such-and-such

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such-and-such (plural such-and-suches)

  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.
    • 1941 June, “Great Northern 0-6-2 Tanks”, in Railway Magazine, page 256:
      [] it has answered numerous questions as to what such-and-such a locomotive designer would have done, to keep pace with increasing demand for tractive power, had he held office for just a little longer.
    • 2006, “Master of None”, performed by Beach House:
      We always rub our hands too much / We know the reasons, but such and such

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such-and-such

  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.

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