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such and such

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1551, OED Evaluation: N/A

Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Oh is that right. So what was it like to have Roda as a teacher? Speaker: You sat down and behaved yourself, because she would just turn around and look at you. And she would say, calling you by name, "Did you do such-and-such a thing?" And of-course you sat there terrified (laughs). And Roda's ah- we're all bigger than Roda.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Well the Child-Finders or Parent-Finders they phoned me one day and my grandchildren were sitting here, they were teenagers at the time, and ah, y-- you know they asked who- if it was Marta Thorne, and I said "Yes" and ah I- "You had a child in such-and-such a name, we have you registered" and I said "Yes" and she said "Well we have a gentleman here and I believe it's your son" and "Oh-my-g-d where is he? I wanna see him now, five minutes ago, where is he?"
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
... it's not built on a- on a defined grid pattern per-se, so you'll- rather than- than getting two streets coming together, you may get just as easily three streets come together so everything is what they call square, so you'll go through Kenmore-Square, and such-and-such Square, Harvard-Square, one square after another, and when- when you get three streets converging, I mean the dynamics is just intensified so much and then it tends to let down as you get out there.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Like how do they reach everybody? Speaker: Um through a pager now. Before it used to be by a phone and we used to have one in our house and it would ring a different ring and somebody would be on the other end going, "there's a fire in such-and-such a place" and half the time you wouldn't know exactly where that was 'cause- like now you have numbers, you have a specific place where to go and back then you didn't. You had no clue. You had to go by what you were told right.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
... I don't know whether you're county western or not but she's strictly Nashville, one of the top ones, and since she was coming to Watertown on such-and-such a date, so we got home and got thinking about it, and we got the phone number and-everything, so we phoned and we got tickets for it, and you-know I don't know how many years we were down there ...
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: So he died of asphyxiation and suffocation through drowning. Interviewer: And that's what it says on the certificate. Speaker: That's what it says. And he was forty-four years old. We didn't realized he was that young. I mean you put down dates you-know, he was born such and such year, he died such and such year, a lot of the times you really don't kick in on what that involve ...
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: She kept ah- she was very um- she was very good because she- she kept like a- Interviewer: A diary. Speaker: A diary. She would know, okay, so so-and-so really likes such-and-such a meal or they like- Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: This or they don't like that. Like she was really ah, very good um at- at hosting these co-- you-know, people.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
... candle I'd put it in the drawer and- and have it so that I would take it out at special times. And I never got to take it out because you-know you were too busy or-whatever you- "Oh I should have used that. I should've used that such-and-such time" or a sweater, anything that was just special. I would have it for a whole year before I would use it. I don't do that anymore. I've come- come to that realization that you're not gonna live forever. So you'd better use what you have.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
... an incentive to stay here to be a doctor. This is from what I've heard so I'm not going to say it's a concrete number but just more of an incentive to say like "Okay if you come out to this area, we're going to give you such and such money to stay in this area and build and grow your demographics and-"
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
... they made me kneel in front of the- the statue of the blessed mother there and cross myself and I was not Catholic and they warned me all of these things, "If you don't do this, you're going to die before you're such and such an age" and- ... They used to put the fear of the Lord in his (laughs)-
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
But this village helped raise them you-know? They couldn't get away with anything. Our neighbour across the road, he'd say, "I heard your son was doing such-and-such a thing." So- then we'd speak to them and s-- you-know they were, it was a g-- a good neighbourhood, I just think Beaverton is the best place I could raise the boys.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: They would go to the bush, saw logs all winter, saw lumber, and they would come and they would frame the barn and then h-- he would say "Al ah, you've- you go round- round up a hundred men for such-and-such a day." Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: "And we'll put the barn up." Interviewer: Now that- okay.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Uncle-Jimmy's who was- died when he was ninety or ninety-one after- just a few years ago and he had a great Lanark-County accent. He had the real thing and- and one of his- "Do you mind the time- do you mind the time when such and such a thing happened?" And ah, and then I heard him use the expression storm-stayed which I'd never heard which I'd read about in the- in Peter-Gzowski.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And, you know, I'm sorry to say I don't remember the na-- I don't know my birds anymore. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: But I did when we went to school. Interviewer: Mm-hm, 'cause you would learn it. Speaker: You'd see the bird- "Oh, that's a such-and-such a bird." And you'd hear the- Interviewer: Mm-hm, mm-hm. Speaker:- the call and you'd think, "Oh, I know what that bird is."
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: You're- you're really- things were so much simpler then- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But, um- and everything didn't have to be colour-coordinated (laughs) Interviewer: (laughs) Speaker: Like you- you- you didn't ah the people on the farm didn't register at such-and-such a place for china and this type-of-thing. It was anything they- anything that was given to them they appreciated.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
Speaker: And it did, ah- Mister-Watts- he was a very, very nice man. He lived here in town. He, ah, w-- would go up and d-- he had such-and-such a route to do and the bus was full by the time- like you were squashed in- one right- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Beside the other.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Or there was one teacher that- in math that um, he- he would make us, ah, all of a sudden go up to the board and, you-know, "Give me the answer to such-and-such a question." And if I didn't know the answer, I felt so dumb standing up there and trying to- "Okay, I'm supposed to kn-- write the answer down," and all the other people seemed to know what they were doing.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: She tried to get her, and, ah, then she- she got- get- got back to me, and she says, "You realize how many, ah, such-and-such gr- (inc) names are in the phonebooks?"" Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: She says, "There's, ah, maybe about two-and-a-half pages under the same name. How am I going to pick that name out?" "Oh," I said, "I didn't know that."
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.