such-and-such
Noun
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Noun
such-and-such
- 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.
- French: Untel
- German: dies und das
- Italian: tal dei tali
- Portuguese: tal e tal
- Russian: то́-то и то́-то
- 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.
- Portuguese: tal e tal
- Russian: тако́й-то
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