odds and ends
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Meaning · English
Various small, leftover, or miscellaneous items
Literally: remaining pieces of different things
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
It was only three minutes down the road, and Jim always had a storehouse of odds and ends.
Readers may also recall that in this new volume of the journal we are introducing an occasional unrefereed series of short features entitled ‘ EP - odds and ends’.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “odds and ends” mean?
Various small, leftover, or miscellaneous items Literally: remaining pieces of different things
Is “odds and ends” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.