and so forth
phraseEtymology Dates back at least to Old English and swā forþ.
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Idiomatic Indicates that a list continues in a similar manner.
- Don't forget to pack weather items appropriate for the climate: sunscreen, rain gear, and so forth.
- [David] Wain packs They Came Together with supporting characters, most of them variations on stock rom-com archetypes—the exes, the siblings, the co-workers, the yuppie parents, and so forth.2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
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