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‘What sort of idea?’ he called back, amusement audible in his voice – cheeky so-and-so! ‘Oh, hang on, I’ve nearly finished
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‘Did she tell you that Peter virtually sat on her doorstep for a year trying to persuade her to marry him? He is a persistent so-and-so, that brother of mine
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sentence you should say ‘so-and-so and I’
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should say ‘so-and-so and me’
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permit from so-and-so was so that they could clear our project
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Had I attended so-and-so a concert on a certain night and … et cetera? How did he know that, I demanded
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Remember the time when she tongue-lashed So-and-So for his rudeness to our mother? That was a seismic event
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so-and-so’ dissolves; ‘I am a witness only’ remains and that too
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‘I-am-so-and-so’ obscures the changeless state of pure aware-
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yourself as such-and-such, so-and-so, this or that
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cease to be a Mr-so-and-so, busy about his own affairs
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him that so-and-so is a realized man and can be accepted as a
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ten in the morning “ Well, Claude, you ol’ so-and-so
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"Ma-sigh, ma-see, ma-saw—what do I care? Proves you're a lying so-and-so is what it does!"
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By the way, did you hear the good one Sheila got on Ian? He bragged he ought to be called an ace—because of the five-count—and she says, Aren't you mispronouncing it? So he falls for it and says, What are you babbling on about, you silly so-and-so
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But there was the threat by Sutton, and in a way she liked getting a rise from the puffed-up so-and-so
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"Thought I could get the so-and-so to light itself off, but as soon as the bottom oil is gone the spray won't catch
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Although he should have viewed the successful and extremely rapid resolution of this case with relief, Mr Becker couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor so-and-so this harpy had got her claws into—it reminded him so much of his own situation
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“Is that [So-and-So]?” can be transformed into “Who is that?” “Could that be a [gizmo]?”
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the message will say: “But surely that is so-and-so' s style”-- referring to the intermediary to whom the message was confided
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“So-and-so, being a cab driver in this city is very tough
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calls in his subordinates and says "Please take Mr Gotlieb to so-and-so"
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“The dirty little so-and-so tried to have me shot
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around bragging about what you did and how you helped out and how so-and-so would
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When we say that so-and-so is down in the dust, we mean that he has nothing
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Also, when you say this life tempted so-and-so, that is, he saw its garniture and show, so he tended to it with admiration until it became a chief concern of his spirit
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“Failing were the hands of one” so-and-so means that they were unable to achieve the deeds they intended to do
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He will then ask himself, what about so-and-so person who have passed away? What about such and such person whose life is not prolonged? And where is so-and-so person? What are the remains for those people who left this world of their powerful leadership or their authority and their kingship? What far from this life’ enjoyments they are! If death is the end of everybody, and unavoidable destiny, if all man’s attempts and efforts throughout his life leads him to this very important destiny, therefore, there will be no hope in this life
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That old so-and-so"
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When, in spite of your existing, “respectable” position in society, with its concomitant titles, regalia and authority, your life creativity begins to degrade gradually in some of the Directions of development to the primitive levels of mental-sensuous activity common to aboriginals of the “so-and-so” tribe or to native peoples (close to their level of development) that jump around a sacrificial fire and worship their totem, then this may serve you “personally” as an obvious sign of the process (that tends to appear in your refocusings) of a gradual return to the states which bring the manifestation of your UFS closer to these tribes and peoples, no matter in which Time Flows you “personally” (or they) are
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And each of these refocusings contains your individual wave mark, confirming that this creativity was performed “personally by so-and-so”
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72-3: Al tío Fulano: from old So-and-so
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unlawful entry as security will see that professor so-and-so will receive my book
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this and that and how was so-and-so; when was it going to
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“That little so-and-so?” Murphy offered helpfully
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† In common conversation, or in writing, either by heathen or Christians, we say, 'So-and-so did such and such things while he lived, but now he is dead;’ without giving any opinion against the survival of the soul
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' 'And did you hear, Nikolay, that on the same day Widow So-and-so and her sister were murdered and robbed?' 'I
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lay-brother; his superior came to know of it, and one day said to the worthy widow by way of brotherly remonstrance, 'I am surprised, senora, and not without good reason, that a woman of such high standing, so fair, and so rich as you are, should have fallen in love with such a mean, low, stupid fellow as So-and-so, when in this house there are so many masters, graduates, and divinity students from among whom you might choose as if they were a lot of pears, saying this one I'll take, that I won't take;'
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but she replied to him with great sprightliness and candour, 'My dear sir, you are very much mistaken, and your ideas are very old-fashioned, if you think that I have made a bad choice in So-and-so, fool as he seems; because for all I want with him he knows as much and more
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The answer was, "Senor, there is written and recorded the day on which your lordship took possession of this island, and the inscription says, 'This day, the so-and-so of such-and-such a month and year, Senor Don Sancho Panza took possession of this island; many years may he enjoy it
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The governor, the majordomo, and the carver went aside with him, and, unheard by his sister, asked him how he came to be in that dress, and he with no less shame and embarrassment told exactly the same story as his sister, to the great delight of the enamoured carver; the governor, however, said to them, "In truth, young lady and gentleman, this has been a very childish affair, and to explain your folly and rashness there was no necessity for all this delay and all these tears and sighs; for if you had said we are so-and-so, and we escaped from our father's house in this way in order to ramble about, out of mere curiosity and with no other object, there would have been an end of the matter, and none of these little sobs and tears and all the rest of it
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So-and-so, of I don't know where; and the other To my husband Sancho Panza, governor of the island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than me
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Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened
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He’d say, ‘Mr So-and-so was smoking chars but has stopped because it’s sinful,’ or, ‘Mr X has kept his beard and I congratulate him,’ or, ‘Mr Y voluntarily closed down his CD shop
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People liked to hear their names on the radio; they also liked to hear which of their neighbours were sinful so they could gossip: ‘Have you heard about So-and-so?’
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‘Miss So-and-so has stopped going to school and will go to heaven,’ he’d say, or, ‘Miss X of Y village has stopped education at Class 5
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“That’s so-and-so,” they told me
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Most people said: “Is so-and-so going?” When they heard that their friends and neighbours had volunteered, they did not want to be left out
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When someone dies and the relatives carry on, you always hear them say so-and-so would have wanted it that way
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So-and-so’s daughter or son, attending such-and-such school won this-or-that award
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It’s vital that various ambassadors come, but that they each speak to so-and-so or such-and-such at a particular time, and no, they can’t sit with the Indians, and what, we haven’t got green tea, and is Italy coming, because if so, Hungary isn’t – you understand the gist
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Then quite a group of boys and girls—playmates of Tom's and Joe's—came by, and stood looking over the paling fence and talking in reverent tones of how Tom did so-and-so the last time they saw him, and how Joe said this and that small trifle (pregnant with awful prophecy, as they could easily see now!)—and each speaker pointed out the exact spot where the lost lads stood at the time, and then added something like "and I was a-standing just so—just as I am now, and as if you was him—I was as close as that—and he smiled, just this way—and then something seemed to go all over me, like—awful, you know—and I never thought what it meant, of course, but I can see now!"
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Not only did she fail to notice that the Emperor talked a long time with the French ambassador, and how particularly gracious he was to a certain lady, or that Prince So-and-so and Soand-so did and said this and that, and that Helene had great success and was honored was by the special attention of So-and-so, but she did not even see the Emperor, and only noticed that he had gone because the ball became livelier after his departure
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place, Tormasov to another place, and Chichagov should have crossed (more than knee-deep in snow) to somewhere else, and how so-and-so ‘routed’ and ‘cut off’ the French and so on and so on
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Though Pierre, Natasha, Nicholas, Countess Mary, and Denisov had much to talk about that they could not discuss before the old countess- not that anything was hidden from her, but because she had dropped so far behindhand in many things that had they begun to converse in her presence they would have had to answer inopportune questions and to repeat what they had already told her many times: that so-and-so was dead and so-andso was married, which she would again be unable to remember- yet they sat at tea round the samovar in the drawing room from habit, and Pierre answered the countess’ questions as to whether Prince Vasili had aged and whether Countess Mary Alexeevna had sent greetings and still thought of them, and other matters that interested no one and to which she herself was indifferent
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So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc
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He calls on that phone across the street about this time, to see has so-and-so arrived, come out, stuff like that, said Charlotte
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Id look out at him, tall in the sunlight, and say, You need a little editing! And hed laugh and never come in, just tell the dressmaker tailor lady how he wanted so-and-sos face, near or far, in or out, and leave
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Some time after his moving in, which had borne a singular resemblance to the entrance of nothing at all, to borrow the memorable expression of the principal tenant, this Jondrette had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time portress and stair-sweeper: "Mother So-and-So, if any one should chance to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, perchance, it is I
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"How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, and she said to herself: "What! Am I to be like Mademoiselle So-and-So?"
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Lately I been thinking things about it, funny things—but, hell, I’m a big-mouthed so-and-so
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But now, tonight, the dead were risen, Earth was reinhabited, memory awoke, a million names were spoken: What was so-and-so doing tonight on Earth? What about this one and that one? The people on the porches glanced sidewise at each other’s faces
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Lately I been thinking things about it, funny things--but, hell, I'm a big-mouthed so-and-so
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To say, “So-and-So was at the table next to us at the Trocadero
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It was a court order addressed to Jack So-and-So, informing him that if he didn’t pay his back alimony he would be in contempt and punishable
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The men talked casually of grass and water, of So-and-So who had bought a new champion bull in England and flown it home
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People were perpetually trying to push their way through the crowd, with—‘Room for Marshal So-and-so’s carriage!’ or ‘His Excellency So-and-so’s,’ or ‘General So-and-so’s
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Above the shop there shall be, " Prince So-and-so, Bootmaker "—it would really be a credit
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When the protocol had been signed, Nikolay Parfenovitch turned solemnly to the prisoner and read him the “Committal,” setting forth, that in such a year, on such a day, in such a place, the investigating lawyer of such-and-such a district court, having examined so-and-so (to wit, Mitya) accused of this and of that (all the charges were carefully written out) and having considered that the accused, not pleading guilty to the charges made against him, had brought forward nothing in his defense, while the witnesses, so-and-so, and so-and-so, and the circumstances such-and-such testify against him, acting in accordance with such-and-such articles of the Statute Book, and so on, has ruled, that, in order to preclude so-and-so (Mitya) from all means of evading pursuit and judgment he be detained in such-and-such a prison, which he hereby notifies to the accused and communicates a copy of this same “Committal” to the deputy prosecutor, and so on, and so on
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At first the old lady did no more than watch the gamblers, and ply me, in a half-whisper, with sharp-broken questions as to who was so-and-so
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When I became desperate with silence and solitude of soul, I would get into talk with him; I wanted to hear, and reply to some words falling from a living soul, and the more filled with gall and hatred with all our surroundings they had been, the more would they have been in sympathy with my wretched mood; but he would just barely talk, quietly go on sizing his lanterns, and then begin to tell me some story as to how he had been at a review of troops in 18—, that their general of division was so-and-so, that the manœuvring had been very pretty, that there had been a change in the skirmisher's system of signalling, and the like; all of it in level imperturbable tones, like water falling drop by drop
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, So-and-so Maslova pronounced guilty of having caused the death through poison of the merchant Smelkoff, and has, according to Statute 1454 of the penal code, been sentenced to Siberia,” etc
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Then he related with particular pleasure how several high-placed persons stole a lot of money collected for the erection of the still unfinished monument which they had passed that morning; also, how the mistress of So-and-so got a lot of money at the Stock Exchange, and how So-and-so agreed with So-and-so to sell him his wife
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And it was clear to him that he was not a Russian nobleman, a member of Moscow society, the friend and relation of so-and-so and so-and-so, but just such a mosquito, or pheasant, or deer, as those that were now living all around him
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Fanirin told his driver to follow him, and he began to relate to Nekhludoff how the mistress of so-and-so had made millions on 'Change, how so-and-so had sold, and another had bought, his wife
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Not only did she fail to notice that the Emperor talked a long time with the French ambassador, and how particularly gracious he was to a certain lady, or that Prince So-and-so and So-and-so did and said this and that, and that Hélène had great success and was honored by the special attention of So-and-so, but she did not even see the Emperor, and only noticed that he had gone because the ball became livelier after his departure
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He asked one, ‘From whom did you get it?’ ‘From so-and-so
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And it is of this period of the campaign—when the army lacked boots and sheepskin coats, was short of provisions and without vodka, and was camping out at night for months in the snow with fifteen degrees of frost, when there were only seven or eight hours of daylight and the rest was night in which the influence of discipline cannot be maintained, when men were taken into that region of death where discipline fails, not for a few hours only as in a battle, but for months, where they were every moment fighting death from hunger and cold, when half the army perished in a single month—it is of this period of the campaign that the historians tell us how Milorádovich should have made a flank march to such and such a place, Tormásov to another place, and Chichagóv should have crossed (more than knee-deep in snow) to somewhere else, and how so-and-so “routed” and “cut off” the French and so on and so on
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Though Pierre, Natásha, Nicholas, Countess Mary, and Denísov had much to talk about that they could not discuss before the old countess—not that anything was hidden from her, but because she had dropped so far behindhand in many things that had they begun to converse in her presence they would have had to answer inopportune questions and to repeat what they had already told her many times: that so-and-so was dead and so-and-so was married, which she would again be unable to remember—yet they sat at tea round the samovar in the drawing room from habit, and Pierre answered the countess’ questions as to whether Prince Vasíli had aged and whether Countess Mary Alexéevna had sent greetings and still thought of them, and other matters that interested no one and to which she herself was indifferent
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Grocer so-and-so, Mrs
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Mayor so-and-so, Mrs
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Milliner so-and-so, etc
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He had worked hard upon it; great pains had been expended upon the delineations of character, and the tone and play of incident; the plot, too, had been worked up with much artistic force and skill; and, above all, everything was so strikingly original; no one, in regarding the various characters of the tale, could say: this is intended for so-and-so! No, nothing precisely like the persons in his romance had ever actually existed; of that the author was certain, and in that he was very probably correct
