here and there

adverb

In, at or to various places; in one place and another.

“I get the odd day off here and there.”

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here and yonderhither and yonhither and yonder
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Meanings

adverbhere and there (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn, at or to various places; in one place and another.

    They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.

    1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC
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    Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

    1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC

    Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths.

    1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC

    Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel[,] with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy.

    1953 November, H. M. Madgwick, “A Last Journey on the Chichester-Midhurst Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 775
  2. not comparableuncommonFrom time to time; intermittently, occasionally.

    I get the odd day off here and there.

    2 more examples

    Before we study his ideas, it is useful to note here again that extraterrestrial powers intervened here and there in his life, as early as his birth, then his baptism […].

    2009, John Bogard, The Message from the Cosmos, page 63

    Yep. Since nineteen sixty, or thereabouts. Missed a few years, here and there.

    2011, R. E. Donald, chapter 23, in Slow Curve on the Coquihalla

    Synonyms: here and yonder, hither and yon, hither and yonder

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbFrom time to time; intermittently, occasionally.

Similar
here and yonderhither and yonhither and yonder
Also see
at placeshere and yonderhither and yonhither and yonder

Translations

Ancient Greek ἐνιαχοῦ
  • ἐνιαχοῦ (eniakhoû)in one place and another
Arabic هُنَا وَهُنَاكَ
  • هُنَا وَهُنَاكَ (hunā wa-hunāka)in one place and another
Catalan ençà i enllà
  • ençà i enllàin one place and another
Chinese Mandarin 到處 /到处, 滿處 /满处
  • 到處 /到处 (dàochù)in one place and another
  • 滿處 /满处 (mǎnchù)in one place and another
Czech sem tam
  • sem tamin one place and another
Danish her og der
  • her og derin one place and another
Dutch hier en daar, her en der
  • hier en daarin one place and another
  • her en derin one place and another
Esperanto jen kaj jen, dise
  • jen kaj jenin one place and another
  • disein one place and another
Finnish siellä täällä, sinne tänne
  • siellä täälläin one place and another
  • sinne tännein one place and another
French par-ci, par-là, çà et là
  • par-ci, par-làin one place and another
  • çà et làin one place and another
  • ici et làin one place and another
German hier und da
  • hier und dain one place and another
Greek ενιαχού
  • ενιαχού (eniachoú)in one place and another
Hindi यहाँ-वहाँ, इधर-उधर
  • यहाँ-वहाँ (yahā̃-vahā̃)in one place and another
  • इधर-उधर (idhar-udhar)in one place and another
  • इतस्ततः (itastataḥ)in one place and another
Hungarian itt-ott, ide-oda
  • itt-ottin one place and another
  • ide-odain one place and another
Icelandic hér og þar
  • hér og þarin one place and another
Italian qua e là
  • qua e làin one place and another
Japanese 彼方此方, 彼方此方
  • 彼方此方 (achirakochira)in one place and another
  • 彼方此方 (atchikotchi)in one place and another
Korean 곳곳, 여기저기
  • 곳곳 (gotgot)in one place and another
  • 여기저기 (yeogijeogi)in one place and another
Latin passim, dispersē
  • passimin one place and another
  • dispersēin one place and another
Māori kōtiwhatiwha, āputaputa
  • kōtiwhatiwhain one place and another
  • āputaputain one place and another
Norwegian Bokmål her og der
  • her og derin one place and another
Polish tu i tam, tam i sam
  • tu i tamin one place and another
  • tam i samin one place and another
  • gdzieniegdziein one place and another
  • tu i ówdziein one place and another
  • miejscamiin one place and another
Portuguese aqui e ali, lá e cá
  • aqui e aliin one place and another
  • lá e cáin one place and another
Romanian încoace și încolo
  • încoace și încoloin one place and another
Russian и там и тут, там и сям
  • и там и тут (i tam i tut)in one place and another
  • там и сям (tam i sjam)in one place and another
  • там и тут (tam i tut)in one place and another
  • тут и там (tut i tam)in one place and another
  • туда́-сюда́ (tudá-sjudá)in one place and another
Scottish Gaelic an siud 's an seo, thall 's a-bhos
  • an siud 's an seoin one place and another
  • thall 's a-bhosin one place and another
Slovak sem-tam
  • sem-tamin one place and another
Spanish aquí y allí, acá y allá
  • aquí y allíin one place and another
  • acá y alláin one place and another
  • acá y aculláin one place and another
  • de aquí para allíin one place and another
  • de aquí para alláin one place and another
  • de acá para alláin one place and another
  • de acá para aculláin one place and another
  • de ceca en mecain one place and another
  • de la ceca a la mecain one place and another
Swahili huko na huko
  • huko na hukoin one place and another
Swedish här och där
  • här och därin one place and another
Turkish orada burada, orda burda
  • orada buradain one place and another
  • orda burdain one place and another
Ukrainian поде́куди
  • поде́куди (podékudy)in one place and another
Urdu جابَجا, اِدَھر اُدَھر
  • جابَجا (jābajā)in one place and another
  • اِدَھر اُدَھر (idhar udhar)in one place and another
  • یَہاں وَہاں (yahā̃ vahā̃)in one place and another
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