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so-and-so

Anything generic.
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He will tell you to do so-and-so, but read the instructions first, anyway.

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Submitted on September 01, 2009

Additional definitions for 'so-and-so':

so-and-soA name used to take the place of an epithet.
so-and-soA placeholder name, used when a name is not known; a generic name.
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