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such and such

Parf of speech: Pronoun, 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: Do you- do you have any idea what the people who live in Ottawa think about people who live in the Ottawa-Valley? Speaker: Oh, I don't know. No. Interviewer: You've never hears any ah stereotypes or anyone say oh, Ottawa-Va-- Valley people are such-and-such. Speaker: No. Interviewer: No? Speaker: Don't think so.
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
Okay, we went into this cave, we met this ah, waitress, like there was a waitress in one of the places that we were staying at and she was really nice and she had the day off and such-and-such. And she said, "I'll take you to these underground caves."
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.
Everybody moved, yeah everybody moved out basically because either they found a roommate, I mean they found another place they wanted to be in with their boyfriend or they wanted to move to Kitchener or they were from Kitchener or their job was at such-and-such. Things like that, so they moved out.
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.
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You had no clue. You had to go by what you were told right. And a lot of people would call up and say "oh on the corner of such-and-such by the general store". Well, where exactly? You-know? So.
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.
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... and the worst part is I'm getting old enough now sometimes you- you even- you don't even recognise the name now. It's sad to say. Didn't think that'd ever happen but. There's a few times that people have mentioned such and such and you're just like "Who?" Half of the time you start to get to that point where ah I'll have to take the yearbook (INC) (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.
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And it was always amazing, 'cause we were still working you-know on word-families, and putting a sentence together, and- and-so-on, and ah but I always thought that was funny. "Why isn't my child reading such and such yet?" "Well you-know they're- they will but" so, anyway, that's ah- I always thought grade-one was the- a huge responsibility. But I al-- I loved it. And it was the grade of the greatest growth.
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.
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Um, until recently he worked as a program supervisor. So when the government would implement new programs and policies and-whatever, he would be in charge of seeing where the money goes and that is being used to do such-and-such. Um, since then, the last couple of years, he's been a senior-policy-advisor. He works in Toronto.
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
And ah you could put a coat of paint on a- on a table and he could kno-- knock on the table and say, ah "That's a piece of maple." Or, "That's a piece of oak." Or such-and-such. He just had that knowledge of the sounds of wood and-so-on that he- he could ah mostly identify pretty-well any piece of painted furniture.
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.
And you hear- you heard stories about kids that are- are a little rebel-- bellious I'd call it, and having one of the teachers at the school two months later tell ya, "You-know, you remember giving a terrific kids award to such-and-such. You-know this ah child doesn't swear anymore, he's brought me homework in for the first time in a year-and-a-half, he's the first one to help me in- in the classroom and in the playground."
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.
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Speaker: ... to knit something, she waited until she got married and moved over to Perry-Sound, and then she'd call me on the telephone, long-distance and say "Mom, it says um-" Well how am I suppose to explain this long-distance, over telephone line. (laughs) How you suppose to do such-and-such. Why- Interviewer: Especially (inc). Speaker: Why- why did you wait until now to find out that you wanted to knit something? Why didn't you do it when you were here where I could have showed you what to do here, you-know. Um (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.
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Exactly, would have brought more of the ah- yeah, that's it, you-know like the enrichment that you guys needed and deserved- (laughs) your hands are tied when they give you all that stuff that you've got to cover by the end of such and such. You have no chance of diverting and making minds open even further than what they possibly could.
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 would be questions or they would be whatever and it would have inverted clauses in them and we would have to pick out- and for every word we would have to tell exactly what it was like um, 'the' is the definite article marking the noun such-and-such, you-know. We'd have to write it out so it would take a long time to do, right? It would keep us busy for ages. But I loved it, like I loved that type-of-thing.
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.
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I have a car but I-mean I walk mostly and they- they say, "Oh June when you're going out if you see anybody's got such-and-such out, give me a call." And I do it. And you-know like it's because you can and you and you- that's what it's all about. Um when y-- something goes wrong, the people in Kirkland-Lake are really good about supporting you too.
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.
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Um, we got a magazine and ah it was called ah Countrymen, Canadian-Countrymen, it was a farm magazine, and they had ah a ladies' section in it, and people wrote in and say, "Have you got a recipe for such and such?" or "I read this really good book," or- or whatever, and it was a letter from this lady an she was looking for people to write to her, a young farm woman who would write to her, so I wrote to her.
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: W-- were grabbing the fire-clothes and so they were- and so if they found- if they found that- like they all had their name-tags and badge on it, right? And so they'd all have two or three suits, right? Interviewer: Right. Speaker: And so they were notifying family members that such-and-such p-- passed in the- in the- in the rescue efforts but it wouldn't be them (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
You- like you have to have a suit. And if you get- sometimes (laughs) if you forget what suit your partner has, you can lose. And that's what I'd- I'd get- I'd get to- Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: I get to- I get thinking, "Oh he's such and such-" Interviewer: (inc) trump. Speaker: Yeah for it's trump and then you'd get- yeah, and you'd lose. But my father was terrible at- because he played it in the woods. He would play Rummy with us and he um ah he would beat us ...
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: But ah yeah- 'cause a lot of kids now are left out. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: 'Cause you- Speaker: Because everything is- Interviewer: It's 'cause they don't have the money to- to do it. Speaker: Ord- ordained to such and such and such Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: And if you're not good at it, well then- Interviewer: Yeah too. Yeah. Speaker: That's- it's too bad, it's ah-
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.
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They had both- one or the other and so Kris said- and they treated me just like family and all through the years they said ah you will come to our reception and you'll do such and such and I said, "I will do anything to help you prepare but I don't want to go." And they were having a dance in the- one of the halls. Ah and Kyle said, "Well if Ray was alive, he'd go." I said, "That is utterly different."
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.