one thing and another
idiom
: various things that have happened
What with one thing and another, we still haven't finished.
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As soon as the differences between one thing and another are established, a germ of rebellion is born in me.
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Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
The situation has reached a strange netherworld of off-the-record confirmations and denials where one set of sources says one thing and another says the opposite, and most likely no one is telling the whole truth.
—Jem Aswad Variety Entertainment News Service, al, 23 Aug. 2023
The boundaries between one thing and another are always blurry and changing, if not actually nonexistent.
—Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
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Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
The situation has reached a strange netherworld of off-the-record confirmations and denials where one set of sources says one thing and another says the opposite, and most likely no one is telling the whole truth.
—Jem Aswad Variety Entertainment News Service, al, 23 Aug. 2023
The boundaries between one thing and another are always blurry and changing, if not actually nonexistent.
—Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
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“One thing and another.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one%20thing%20and%20another. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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