and things

Meaning

1. Oxford30% of films

   used when you do not want to complete a list

   Perhaps she'll let me help her with the curtains and things.

   [DOOR OPENS]

In the movies · 13

• and winners and underdogs and things like that,Taylor Swift: Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions2020
• [DOOR OPENS]Se7en1995
• Perhaps she'll let me help her with the curtains and things.The Uninvited1944
• People and things.R.I.P.D.2013
• and things to read.The Butterfly Effect2004
• And things like that.Won't You Be My Neighbor?2018
• Thank-yous written everywhere And things they forgotCome from Away2021
• And things were finally going well.Battlestar Galactica: The Plan2009

Learn it in full scenes

• The Uninvited1944
  • Pamela Falls for the Old House
  • The Fitzgeralds Try to Buy Windward
  • The Fitzgeralds Buy a Haunted House
• Come from Away2021
  • Gander Learns of the Emergency
  • Planes Land Unexpectedly in Gander
  • Gander Declares a State of Emergency

From the same entry

• A is one thing, B is another
• all things being equal
• be all things to all men
• come to the same thing
• be a good thing
• be no bad thing
• be onto a good thing
• do things to
• do your own thing
• first thing
• first things first
• for one thing

More idioms

• it will cost you
• any day
• be another different matter
• cut some slack
• get your act together
• around the corner
• at all times
• on the spur of the moment
• read between the lines
• make an exception
• not in the least
• play games