all that jazz

all that jazz

English

Etymology

From jazz (“stuff”).

Phrase

all that jazz

1. (informal, idiomatic) Everything else related to something; other similar things.

   He went to school to study math and science and all that jazz.

   • 1964, Sammy Cahn (lyrics), Jimmy Van Heusen (music), “My Kind of Town”, performed by Frank Sinatra:

     My kind of town, Chicago is / My kind of razzmatazz / And it has all that jazz

Translations

everything else related to something; other similar things

Chinese: Mandarin: 之類的, 之類的 (zhīlèi de) Finnish: muuta sellaista French: et tout et tout (fr), et tout le tremblement (fr), et tout le bataclan (fr), et tout le tintouin (fr), et tout le tralala (fr), et tout le saint-frusquin (fr) German: und so Polish: inne takie Russian: и т. п. (ru) (i t. p.)

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2023), “all that jazz”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang