Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unnamed or unspecified person or thing.
- noun Informal A son of a gun.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Some one or something not definitely named: commonly representing some person or thing in an imaginary or supposed instance: as, Mrs. So-and-so; was he wrong in doing so-and-so? Compare
so ,adv., 5.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun idiomatic A
placeholder name for a person or thing, used when a name is not known; a generic name. - noun Some thing or things.
- noun euphemistic Used for
epithets such asSOB ,bastard , etc..
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
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Examples
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Some would rush up with autograph books and have notes in the books—‘My name is so-and-so and you can reach me at such-and-such a number.’
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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The office had called one day in a panic and said that one of our relatives had called and said that she wanted to bring her fiancé and her name was so-and-so.
Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005
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The office had called one day in a panic and said that one of our relatives had called and said that she wanted to bring her fiancé and her name was so-and-so.
Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005
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If I don't know somebody, and … there's an instance where somebody was calling me and said, 'I got your number from so-and-so,' well, I may call so-and-so back and say, 'Did you tell them about my situation and everything?'
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Sometimes we don’t make the effort with the new guy because we don’t have the time or energy to do the whole welcome to the club, my name is so-and-so, did you find everything alright.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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Sometimes we don’t make the effort with the new guy because we don’t have the time or energy to do the whole welcome to the club, my name is so-and-so, did you find everything alright.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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Some guy in a pointy hat with stars on it shows up, and President so-and-so puts aside his own intuitive understanding that the economy is falling apart, because this guy has an equation that says otherwise.
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I didn't want to have the entire panel discussion on lj and then show up and say, "Well, on my lj I said this and so-and-so said that and then our friend said the other thing, so I'm done with this topic now."
mrissa: Minicon report, with digressions mrissa 2010
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He was very fond of "when God was handing out brains, so-and-so thought He said trains, and he/she didn't want to go anywhere."
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2010
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That so-and-so is an editor of a major newspaper I don't find very impressive.
Book Reviewing 2010
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