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1.
Worldwide (informal English)
informal
colloquial
spoken
Used to indicate other things of the same kind or nature; roughly equivalent to 'and similar things' or 'and so on'.
Used as a loose intensifier or descriptive tag to characterize the quality, type, or extent of something without specifying details.
2.
Worldwide (informal English)
informal
colloquial
spoken
Used in placeholder constructions (often appearing as 'such and such') to refer to an unspecified person, place, time, or thing.
Examples:
EN:
... and such a beautiful pajama pants, I wish I had had such a pair.
ES:
... y los bonitos calzoncillos me hubieran hecho mucha falta.
EN:
"It means that I adore playing a gypsy and marrying... and getting arrested and such."
ES:
- - Significa que me encanta jugar a ser gitana, y casarme y que me arresten.
EN:
Some of us saw grenades, shrapnel and such close up.
ES:
Algunos de nosotros hemos visto granadas y metralla de cerca.
EN:
Well, I'll be a such and such.
ES:
No me lo puedo creer.
EN:
and the people even find it even funny leave me alone for a moment, will you and such a piece of shit plays the Casanova aren't you ashamed, you?
ES:
Déjame en paz, ¿quieres? Y qué Casanova de mierda eres. ¿No te da vergüenza?
EN:
What with planting and plowing and such.
ES:
Hay mucho que plantar y arar.
EN:
So beautiful, and such a fine character, too.
ES:
Tan bella y con carácter, además.
EN:
A secret. All about people you know, and such fun.
ES:
Un secreto sobre personas que conoces muy bien.
EN:
Why do you write such artificial characters such artificial plots, villains, murderers and such women?
ES:
Por qué inventar personajes tan artificiales tan artificialmente absurdos, villanos, asesinos y esas mujeres?
EN:
And another thing, Virginia... if I say I'm going to be some place at such and such a time...why...
ES:
Y otra cosa, Virginia... si digo que voy a estar en un sitio a una determinada hora... es por qué...
EN:
I'm at that place at such and such a time.
ES:
Estoy en ese lugar en ese momento.
EN:
Them hand scratchings, nobody could read that except school teachers and such.
ES:
Nadie sabe leerlos, excepto los maestros de escuela.
EN:
Now she's with another man, and... kissing around and such stuff...
ES:
Ahora ya anda con otro por ahí... be... suqueándose...
EN:
Children .. and such.
ES:
A los hijos y esas cosas.
EN:
Such refinement and such charm.
ES:
-Qué refinada y qué encanto.
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