This, That, And The Other Meaning

(idiomatic) Particular items belonging to a large, diverse set, but items of the general kind of item indicated.

Example: 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator, ch. 57:
  These returns exhibit a curious annual uniformity in results; the sort of uniformity which you find in the annual output of suicides in the world's capitals, and the proportions of deaths by this, that, and the other disease.
1919, Virginia Woolf, Night and Day, ch. 6:
  She meant to use the cumbrous machine to pick out this, that, and the other interesting person from the muddle of the world.
2005 March 11, Roberta Smith, "Jean-Michel Basquiat: Collisions on Canvas That Still Make Noise," New York Times (retrieved 23 April 2013):
  Looking at his paintings, we sense the intense performance of making them, not as an Expressionistic process, but as a notational, seismographic record of the dodging feints his mind made in this, that and the other direction.

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