such-and-such

Noun

 * 1) A placeholder or generic thing.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:whatsaname

Translations

 * Arabic: كَذَا وَكَذَا, كَذَا
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: tio kaj alio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: δεῖνα
 * Italian: tal dei tali
 * Japanese: 何々
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: فِڵان و فیسار
 * Persian:, چنین و چنان
 * Portuguese: tal e tal
 * Russian: то́-то и то́-то, и то и сё
 * Spanish: tal o cual

Determiner

 * 1) indefinite; some or other, not stated
 * I am troubled by the rush of young researchers attempting to prove that females are not inferior to males in such-and-such an ability or such-and-such a trait, especially when it is by no means clear what difference it makes.

Translations

 * Bashkir: фәлән, фәлән-фәлән
 * Bulgarian: някой си
 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese: tal e tal
 * Russian: