Complete Definition of "such-and-such"

English

Noun
such-and-such
#idiom 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.

Determiner

  1. unstated; given

#: 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.

Translations
Russian: �о-�о и �о-�о

Alternative forms
such and such

See also
so-and-so
thus and such
thus and so

Category:English determiners

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