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odds and ends

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Miscellaneous things; oddments

idiomatic, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

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Examples

“The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends.”
“I scraped my palette, stuck my brushes in a bowl of black soap, and I strolled into the smoking-room. I really believe⟳ that, excepting Geneviève's apartments, no room in the house was so free from the perfume of tobacco as this one. It was a queer chaos of odds and ends hung with threadbare tapestry.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

odds and sods odds match oddsboard oddship oddsmaker oddsmaking

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