odds and sods | Idiomator

Meaning: (chieflyUK,informal,idiomatic)Miscellaneousitems.Synonyms:odds and bods,odds and ends;see alsoThesaurus:hodgepodge1993Dec. 16, Andy Gill, "Rock Albums:Up Until Now" byArt Garfunkel,Independent(UK)(retrieved 20 Dec 2013):Perhaps it's for the best, if this is what his recording career has sunk to: a slapdash assortment ofodds and sodsfrom all parts of his career.2013June 22, “The News Corp split: Murdoch 2.0”, inThe Economist, retrieved20 December 2013:The new News Corp (unkindly referred to as “crap co”) will consist of around 130 newspapers, including theWall Street Journaland theTimesof London, an education business and otherodds and sods.; (chieflyUK,informal,idiomatic)Ordinarypeople who lackdistinction.Synonyms:hoi polloi,odds and bods,unwashed masses;see alsoThesaurus:commonalty1994September 12, Tony Jones, “Yorkshire lad who reached for the stars: Tony Jones talks toFred Hoyle”, inIndependent, UK, retrieved20 December 2013:"I suddenly found that, although my proposals had been accepted at the very highest level, they were not accepted at the lower levels . . . I mean, the aristocrats who appointed the Italian painters or the Viennese musicians didn't have to get agreement from all theodds and sodsaround, did they?"1997June 29,Sarah Lyall, “Arts: On British Soaps, the Poor and the Jobless”, inNew York Times, retrieved20 December 2013:But as the smartly dressed Kim arrived covered in mud from her foray across the pig yard, Tina took the opportunity to sneer, “Now we know how theodds and sodsfeel when Princess Diana turns up.”1997,George G. Blackburn,The Guns of Victory: A Soldier's Eye View, Belgium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-45‎[1],→ISBN:. . . the pervasive need of all those new to hard service discipline to put down those in authority who are making life miserable for all the lowlyodds and sodsof this world.

Examples:

EN: We managed to put up an odds and sods section. Good show!
ES: Armamos sección de resistencia.
EN: Get your odds and sods into the slit trenches.
ES: Que todo el mundo se meta en la trincheras.
EN: I'd get the odds and sods away if I were you.
ES: Si fuera usted, sacaría a todo el mundo de aquí.
EN: Now, what we really have is the remainder of a Brigade HQ Company... consisting largely of chaps from my regiment... brought up to strength by a rather bizarre variety of odds and sods... who joined us when we scrambled out of Singapore.
ES: Lo que aquí tenemos son los restos de una compañía de brigada... formada mayormente por hombres de mi regimiento... y completada con una variedad más bien heteróclita de gente... que se unió a nosotros cuando nos retiramos de Singapur.
EN: Everything's relatively clean, not odds and sods
ES: Todo está relativamente limpio, sin cachivaches.
EN: "bis and bobs and odds and sods and the meat raion's been cut again" soup.
ES: "Sobras de sobras y cosas sueltas y la ración de carne cortada y re-cortada".
EN: I'm sober even if odds and sods go around in my head.
ES: Estoy sobrio aunque me queden retazos en la cabeza.
EN: And some odds and sods we found in the car.
ES: Y algunos cachivaches que encontramos en el coche.
EN: They're in the odds and sods bag over there.
ES: Están en la bolsa de todas las mandangas de allá.
EN: Any odds and sods. Leftovers from my dinner, bones from the butcher.
ES: Restos de mi cena, huesos de la carnicería.
EN: And now, because of your absurd "let's all die happy" odds and sods, I have to rethink things.
ES: Y ahora, por culpa de tus absurdos de "muramos todos felices", tengo que replantearme cosas.
EN: There's a few odds and sods stored elsewhere, but most of this was confiscated from Cooper's home.
ES: Hay algunas probabilidades y lodos almacenados en otros lugares pero la mayor parte fue confiscada de la casa de Cooper.
EN: I'm in need of odds and sods like this
HI: मुझे और इस तरह का सेंटन्स चाहिए
EN: All in all, Remains is proof that some odds and sods collections are well worth the time.
HI: कदर और वक्त भी कमाल के होते हैं
HI: वख़्त होता है अच्छा और बुरा
HI: समयोचित व बेहतरीन
EN: Hang up your odds and sods
HI: अपनी मायूसी और मजबूरियां छुपाये

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