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and then some
Idioms and Phrases
And considerably more, as in I need all the help I can get and then some , or The speaker went on for an hour and then some . This idiom may originally have come from and some , a much older Scottish expression used in the same way. [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
“So there’s going to be some really high highs, and then some things that you just don’t know that are gonna happen, because of his inexperience.”
For Pompeo, her work on “Grey’s” gave her “the gift of knowing how to be present in an instant,” after having put in her “10,000 hours and then some,” she said.
To fund this, Ms Ashby first relied on her own savings and then some small-scale grants.
If Japan needed reassurances it was indeed still the US's top ally and friend in the increasingly unstable Asia-Pacific, it got that and then some.
Some days were clean, and then some days he was scabby and flaking.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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