odds and ends
nounEtymology From a dialectal alteration of ords and ends (“points and endings" or "beginnings and ends”). More at ord, end.
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Idiomatic Miscellaneous things; oddments
- The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends.
- I scraped my palette, stuck my brushes in a bowl of black soap, and I strolled into the smoking-room. I really believe that, excepting Geneviève's apartments, no room in the house was so free from the perfume of tobacco as this one. It was a queer chaos of odds and ends hung with threadbare tapestry.1895, Robert W. Chambers, chapter 2, in The King in Yellow, "The Mask":
- Synonyms
- odds and sods
- Related terms
- bits and bobs