VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Odds and ends

Meaning:

various often worthless small items.

Examples:

  • Well, you know, just tying up a few odds and ends.
  • Say, can I store some odds and ends in your garage?
  • There are a few other odds and ends, she wanted me to give you, but I wasn't able to bring them today.
  • I used some of the odds and ends of wool which had been left over from another sweater.
  • He gave me a few odds and ends.
  • And he knows all the odds and ends.
  • I mean, even all the odds and ends of ropes are gone.
  • I do a lot of odds and ends, Derryn.
  • Uh, I got your socks and some other odds and ends in the bag.
  • We've got this house, a few odds and ends, and that's about all.