| 词汇 | example_english_odds-and-ends |
| 释义 | Examples of odds and endsThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Examples include bag and baggage, bits and pieces, leaps and bounds, oddsandends, over and done with, safe and sound and the dim and distant past. It is not unlikely that we shall find we have some oddsandends to gather up, and probably that will lead to amending legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To do this we had to buy a number of houses, a public house, a farm, and various oddsandends of that kind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clauses 2, 3 and 4, as he has explained to us, contain a number of "oddsandends"—some very odd. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It really cannot just be told that they have a few oddsandends to attend to. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are still a lot of oddsandends of very peculiar liabilities which the railways are left facing for no particular reason. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, there are still a number of oddsandends which should be dealt with. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not one of those little oddsandends like £10,000 to be divided among 3,000,000 unemployed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Two years later what we have is a mish-mash of oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had oddsandends which seemed to have no affinity, and to be incapable of being welded into any coherent whole. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The same applied to wagon covers, ropes, and other oddsandends, which were practically all pooled, and this relieved the situation considerably. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the same time we prefer to accept whatever oddsandends may come our way rather than sit and starve. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a collection of oddsandends and nothing more. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are gatherings of oddsandends—proposals whose time has come—but by and large they tend not to be controversial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it in agriculture, or is it in the multiplicity of oddsandends that exploit agriculture? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The children, going up and down with their tricycles and all their oddsandends, drove the old people frantic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can comment on it only in sections, because it is a miscellany; it is a hotchpotch of various oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was by transferring unexpended funds in oddsandends of budget lines on a year-by-year basis. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We do not want the oddsandends of the population put to sea service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a miscellaneous collection of oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any of the oddsandends that are actually within the ration should be the subject of subsidy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the one case you are dealing with oddsandends; in the other case you are dealing with a main product. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was the main portion of fresh meat in the meal, but there were many other oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a rather disparate collection of detailed oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am taking each of these as a battalion plus the oddsandends behind it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How is it possible for us to rectify this problem by dealing merely with the oddsandends of industry? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a small miscellany of oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Look at the oddsandends of payments they get by way of engine room tickets, charge pay, and the rest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is better than trying to fill the railway workshops with oddsandends of work from other quarters to keep them going. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not unlikely that we shall find we have some oddsandends to gather up, and, probably, that will lead to amending legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, it should not be a criticism that we are making these oddsandends; we are only making them because industry cannot. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Oddsandends of tax, a relatively small percentage of the dividend, cannot be reflected in the price. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A lot of oddsandends that did not matter had all been tied up together to make a piece of legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have great sympathy, too, with the poorer housewife who has to buy cotton, needles, buttons and oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that bacon rationing can be lightly dismissed as a matter of oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may be good vehicles, but nevertheless are regarded by potential purchasers as oddsandends that will not fit into their businesses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been dabbling about with all kinds of little oddsandends and have not time to debate foreign affairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot imagine why he should go through this elaborate procedure in relation to tidying up a few minor oddsandends of legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have had to sell their furniture, deplete the home of oddsandends of furniture, in order to provide food for themselves and their children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a sense, therefore, these regulations merely sweep up the oddsandends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Pensioners also need to have cash ready to hand to buy the little oddsandends that they need on a day-to-day basis—groceries, newspapers and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am a shopper who objects very much to being given more oddsandends by way of change and ticket to put into my pocket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of taking some of the oddsandends which he has announced for debate next week, would he consider substituting an urgently needed debate on this subject? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had the great county families and the legal profession, and we had oddsandends coming in; but, in the main, representation was confined to these two great classes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have heard it said that in addition to their salary nurses receive lots of oddsandends from charitable institutions and other forms of charitable subsidy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are so many discs and oddsandends on the road that the average motorist is not sure whether what he sees is a moving cyclist or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is true that if we were approaching a normal period, the gathering together of these oddsandends, and their production at present, might well have been justified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under the existing law that person is chargeable as to £80 of the £180 income, less parent allowances and insurance and other oddsandends which may amount to £15 or £20. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then depreciation and interest, £1,548; fertilisers, £500; food, £250; fuel, £100; seeds, £100; repairs and renewals, £200; and sundries, such as veterinary surgeon's fees, transport, telephone, and oddsandends, £200. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are the oddsandends, the "small change", of public expenditure where cuts inflict hardship quite out of relationship to any benefit which they bestow on the ratepayer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Other oddsandends include a famous sumo wrestler from the island. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There he wrote uninterrupted, surrounded by all the curious oddsandends that he had picked up during his life. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. From the viewer's perspective, to the left of the studio is a bar section, with various oddsandends on it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It also has a licensed cafe, a butcher, two small shops selling vintage oddsandends and a winery just out of town. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The second of the two parlors contained a parlor lamp, sideboard, two tables, book stand, liquor case, and a few oddsandends. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Feather dusters are effective in dusting tight areas, or areas where there are a lot of oddsandends to dust around. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It feeds on small mollusks, crustaceans and other oddsandends like most other gobies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The bricoleur picks up oddsandends from his time and makes unique projects out of unknown things. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. At other times, they were observed, while on operations, to be wearing merely oddsandends of clothing, gleaned in refugee camps, rather than uniforms. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some individuals begin inventing wild gadgets using kitchen tools, batteries, small appliances and other oddsandends. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He calls the book an entertaining collection of draconic oddsandends. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He has built a shelter out of oddsandends overnight. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Oddsandends (including moments of conversation) were cut and sequences were re-edited, supposedly in the hope to make the film easier to follow. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After studying and practising athleticism at a high level, he began to accumulate rubbish oddsandends that he preserved under plexiglas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They carry off several small oddsandends from the doll's-house including a cradle, however a bird cage and bookcase will not fit through the mouse-hole. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Totally in cash there was almost 900,000 dollars, in addition to bank books, and other oddsandends which the brothers could exchange for even more money. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These include kith and kin, hue and cry, might and main, oddsandends. It is a finance of oddsandends; it is jumble sale finance; it is marine store finance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a tragedy that we should auctioneer road transport vehicles as though they were oddsandends at a jumble sale. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bart did not even attempt to complete his homework, so he tries to make his homework on the fly out of oddsandends up found in his desk. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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