here and there

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here and there

adverb

  1. not comparable In, at or to various places; in one place and another. 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.
  2. not comparable, uncommon From time to time; intermittently, occasionally. I get the odd day off here and there.

    Similar: here and yonder, hither and yon, hither and yonder

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adv in one place and another

Españolaquí y allí, acá y allá, acá y acullá, de aquí para allí, de aquí para allá, de acá para allá
한국어곳곳 gotgot, 여기저기 yeogijeogi
日本語彼方此方 achirakochira, 彼方此方 atchikotchi
中文到處 /到处 dàochù, 滿處 /满处 mǎnchù
हिन्दीयहाँ-वहाँ yahā̃-vahā̃, इधर-उधर idhar-udhar, इतस्ततः itastataḥ
Kiswahilihuko na huko
Portuguêsaqui e ali, lá e cá
Françaispar-ci, par-là, çà et là, ici et là
Deutschhier und da
Italianoqua e là
Ελληνικάενιαχού eniachoú
Românăîncoace și încolo
Русскийи там и тут i tam i tut, там и сям tam i sjam, там и тут tam i tut, тут и там tut i tam, туда́-сюда́ tudá-sjudá
العربيةهُنَا وَهُنَاكَ hunā wa-hunāka

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@misc{here_and_there_2026,
  title = {here and there},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/here%20and%20there},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}