so-and-so
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
“If we stop telling ourselves that the world is so-and-so, the world will stop being so-and-so,” Don Juan mused.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
"It would be going up to them and saying, 'do you know so-and-so said so-and-so'," one says.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
John Jeanson isn’t an AI such-and-such or a crypto so-and-so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
You knew, when you walked into a courtroom and said “I am so-and-so, representing the government or representing the United States of America,” that what you said carried credibility.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
It meant adults had to be referred to as Don so-and-so, and Doña so-and-so, except for teachers, who you should call Mister or Missis so-and-so.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Hoover’s men are smug, citified so-and-sos in trim suits who set great store by fancy crime-fighting techniques like fingerprint analysis, wiretaps, two-way radios and aerial surveillance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
Around New York City, it seemed, there was a tiny enclave of impassioned, well-fed so-and-sos who had all gone mad for this will-o’-the-wisp of a savory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2011
If you're going to indict this long line of greedy so-and-sos for causing financial crashes, you also have to credit them with all the intervening periods of prosperity.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 20, 2010
They say the image of public servants in parts of the media as "lazy, idle so-and-sos, on massive wages" is unfair.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2010
I was cheered, with the high-pitched yipeee! of New Texans and adjured and implored not to let them so-and-sos get away with it.
From Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper
