and change
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Phrase
and change
- (idiomatic) and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.
- 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 179:
- Kate saw a wedge of land rearing up nineteen thousand feet and change, its pointed peak testing the boundaries of the sky.
- 2010, Robert Charles Wilson, Spin - Volume 1, →ISBN:
- She wasn't much taller than five feet and change, and when she pulled off her mask she looked reassuringly human.
- 2012, Paul Melko, The Broken Universe, →ISBN, page 181:
- “Six hundred and change shares of Grauptham House,” she said. “As soon as we have these notarized in the morning."
- 2013, Tony Pypka, Raptor, →ISBN, page 180:
- Seven years and a few months after leaving Earth, we where about to survey the last of six planets around an amazingly stable star some eight hundred and change light years from Earth.
- It cost me two dollars and change. (i.e., more than $2 but less than $3)
- How fast was he going? A hundred and change. (i.e., more than 100 but less than 110).
- "A Million and 1 Questions" by Jay Z.
- This ain't your speed young man, run in your lane / So I can come through doin' a hundred and change
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- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see and, change.
Synonyms
- -odd
- -some
Translations
and some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number
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