How To Use So-and-so In A Sentence

You can imagine, then, how annoyed I am to find out that the so-and-sos have double-crossed me: the decent thing I thought they were doing was in fact an unspeakably sleazy trick that makes sense only as part of a cover-up.
Note for example that if a certain ship (an ens per alio) has a property such as the property of weighing so-and-so many pounds at a certain time, it has this property in virtue of the fact that the ens per se that constitutes at that time actually has that property. Roderick Chisholm
The dirty, cheating little so-and-so. Times, Sunday Times
From there, it pretty much boils down to so-and-so begot so-and-so, with certain offspring taking the high road while others took the low.
Substances are things to which we can refer by use of a demonstrative phrase of the form ‘this so-and-so’; they are things that can be picked out, identified, individuated.

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I don't want to know if so-and-so is in the audience until afterwards. The Sun
Only former Hibs player Murdo MacLeod left Falkirk with anything - the jammy so-and-so won the half-time draw and a fair wad of cash.
There is the ever present, ‘Should I leave so-and-so because I think he's a son of a so-and-so?’
Let's suppose a Mr So-and-so registers at the hotel.
Some so-and-so has pinched my towel.
But a certain causal process - viz., that which standardly takes place when we say that so-and-so sees such-and-such - must occur.
What would you say to Mrs So-and-so who has called to complain about a noisy neighbour?
He maintained that it was uncharitable to say, 'What a bad sermon So-and-so preached,' and not uncharitable to say, 'Well, it is better than the sickening stuff one generally hears'; uncharitable to say, 'What nasty soup this is!' and not uncharitable to say, 'Well, it is better than the filthy pigwash generally called soup.' Hugh Memoirs of a Brother
Presumably that's because he knows all about being bossed around by a miserable old so-and-so that everyone wishes would retire.
Let's imagine Mrs So-and-so walks in. What would you say to her?
It's all so-and-so happening upon someone in woodland seclusion, playing in a pool, or wrestling on the hearthrug.
`You, Jeremy, are a conniving, cunning, devious, good-for-nothing so-and-so. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
Yeah, I remember when so-and-so left a dead fish in my locker.
And we thought, well, poor so-and-sos, they're in the same kind of muck as we are.
You never know, it may just be a nervous laugh, brought on by facing up to five boot-faced, judgemental, snidey so-and-sos like you lot.
He used to be such a good sport, but now he's a grumpy old so-and-so.
Are the world's leading recording companies a bunch of spoiled, ungrateful, money-grabbing so-and-sos or what?
Hello, my name is so-and-so, seventeen years old this year.
I always find it so interesting to note how different personalities play together, and how one personality might find so-and-so a perfect match whilst another personality might find the same so-and-so intensely irritating!
Go on, let the miserable so-and-so put a smile on your face. The Sun
I appreciate that I've been a bit of a so-and-so, but you've made your point and I will try to be different.
You know, So-and-so MBBS FRACP FRCPA, that kind of thing. Restaurant: The Mulberry Tree, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent
I have also seen many names such as so-and-so real estate advisory company or management advisory company.
I was an arrogant so-and-so. Times, Sunday Times
But, being the conniving old so-and-so he is, he went one better.
Not surprisingly, given the litigious times in which we live, most writers turn coy when quizzed about whether so-and-so was the model for a character.
Well, what about their statement as they leave the building, saying that he had spoken softly and what a smart so-and-so he was.
Meanwhile so-and-so has to come to school, and do you think he doesn't know what people are saying behind his back?
Why, a man who can say of a Christmas book that “it is an opuscule denominated so-and-so, and ostensibly intended to swell the tide of expansive emotion incident upon the exodus of the old year,” must evidently have had immense sums and care expended on his early education, and deserves a splendid return. The Kickleburys on the Rhine
It would be a case of 'just do so-and-so and here's your cash'.
I'm always a little suspicious of such claims… and not just because it seems quite possible for someone to take an old piece of clothing and claim that so-and-so wore it in such-and-such a film.
It was a subject that everyone seemed to be talking about these days - who liked who, who was going to go out, who said that so-and-so liked so-and-so… but Greg had never asked me before and for some reason I was not sure how to answer.
Not to mention they have to be the right fit for the script and director it may seem as simple as "just go get so-and-so" to us sitting behind keyboards but it's a lot more involvedly then that. Captain America Shortlist Reportedly Down to Three | /Film
If Mrs So-and-so was ill then Mrs So-and-so down the street would go and clean for her.
It is unlikely that I would have phoned up for tickets if I wasn't a contrary so-and-so.
My name is so-and-so and I tried to kill myself by doing this!
Ask people what they think of politicians and most will reply that they are a bunch of lying, cheating, self-interested so-and-sos.
The little so-and-so was 50 metres from our boundary fence. The Sun
When I see my team-mates in the bar after a game I sometimes wonder if they are saying it's about time that old so-and-so gave up.
People would call him a lucky so-and-so, but he had skill and application and he was very, very clever.
Let's imagine Mrs So-and-so walks in. What would you say to her?
I was also known as so-and-so's daughter or nephew. Times, Sunday Times
But my table companions were disappointed when it came to dessert and they found that the trifle had been completely gobbled up by some greedy so-and-sos who were there earlier in the evening.
So you have people saying, well, we have to trust these people because Lady so-and-so or Lord so-and-so have seen this thing.
She always keeps me up to date with the latest gossip - you know, so-and-so from down the road is having a baby and so-and-so's just bought a car.
This little epigraph is nothing more than a physical reflection of what scooted across so-and-so's mind while sitting and reflecting on a difficult passage or poesy or prose.
So-and-so was always a name important enough for her to recognize, and he always said it in a sort of fake bored way that irritated her. Something Unpredictable
And dammit we don't need to do that to be well armed or be the baddest so-and-so in the valley.
He might be a groovy so-and-so who just happens to think you're hot.
But they're bright little so-and-sos, both of them, and he knows as well as she does that he will never be enough to make her happy.
As with other aspects of my life, I'm capable of being rather anal about pleasure: I will go here, I will do such-and such, with so-and-so, and I will enjoy myself.
She always keeps me up to date with the latest gossip - you know, so-and-so from down the road is having a baby and so-and-so's just bought a car.
This part knows that seeing so-and-so will make me happier. Times, Sunday Times
It's about time we had that in sweaty old London during the summer - how many times have you been stuck underground, or elsewhere, next to some whiffy old so-and-so in his crumpled suit?
Do I have to remember so-and-so's phone number?
My current gardener is a lazy so-and-so and I'm sorely tempted to give him his marching orders.
I pouted and folded my arms again, energy sapped because a certain so-and-so decided to shoot down my enthusiasm.
They have whispering campaigns without including so-and-so, making sure so-and-so knows about it.
What would you say to Mrs So-and-so who has called to complain about a noisy neighbour?
Mr Baker was such a so-and-so - he didn't have a pleasant word to say about anyone!
He knew I was a determined so-and-so, and he knew what buttons to press to get the best out of me.
She married young but her husband was a miserable so-and-so. The Sun
You can never make the best movie you can make if you use so-and-so celebrity.
I want to know people that you can pick up the phone to, and say, ‘Do you remember so-and-so?’
All her fault, the wicked little so-and-so.
He's a tough so-and-so, and he'll figure out how to do it.
You never know, it may just be a nervous laugh, brought on by facing up to five boot-faced, judgemental, snidey so-and-sos like you lot.

How To Use So-and-so In A Sentence

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