so-and-so

You know the thinking: If so-and-so power broker is also in the room, why should I worry?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

“When I see the shoes that so-and-so wore or the dress that so-and-so wore, they seem to me like butterflies that once flew and now they’re dead,” Iñárritu says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

"I've never been on holiday without bumping into a Welsh person and then after about half a minute you're like, 'well do you know so-and-so if you're from Merthyr?' and they always do."

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025

In the morning, she took me out and told me their names—“This is so-and-so, this is so-and-so, this is so-and-so.”

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

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

Those so-and-sos will all pile in everything they got at the last minute.

From Space Platform by Murray Leinster