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Meanings of odds and ends in inglês
A motley assortment of things.
Synonyms
Examples for "melange"
Examples for "melange"
1
Your citizens are addicted and demanding melange, and they are growing restless.
2
But the internal pressure was explosive, and rich melange gas boiled out.
3
This is why we need to harvest so much melange from Arrakis.
4
They sampled from melange-laced hors d'oeuvres that servants carried on silver trays.
5
Anna closed the book and ate another one of the melange biscuits.
1
At a guess, all her pins were lost hodgepodge about the countryside.
2
As the hodgepodge army of creatures approached, Maleficent nearly cried in relief.
3
He tried to distill concrete meaning from the hodgepodge of frantic impressions.
4
It has since scraped through by leasing space to a hodgepodge of traders.
5
Calling that glorified hodgepodge a collection. He shifted and recrossed his bony knees.
1
But its mishmash of businesses is ripe for, say, a loyalty scheme.
2
You were a mishmash of many things; I couldn't recover you whole.
3
Now we let whole mishmash sit for a while, check for leaks.
4
Thomas looked down at the mishmash of tire prints in the gravel.
5
This whole outfit is just a mishmash of stuff from the past.
1
This I could discern by the studied hair-splitting farrago of his rejoinder.
2
Now I know, my reader, that the foregoing seems all a farrago.
3
He had poured out the wildest farrago without sense, coherence, or story.
4
The curious reader may see this farrago of nonsense among the Harleian MSS.
5
It was a farrago of evasion and befuddlement, accompanied by one riveting fact.
1
I am leaving everything to him, of course, except a few oddments.
2
Look out your oddments and let me see what I can do.
3
I meant to pick up a few oddments in the village.
4
Polton, give me a pearl shirt-button out of your oddments box.
5
Belgium's claim to Dutch Limburg and other territorial oddments must likewise be allowed.
1
A Labour source said: The government cobbled together a hotchpotch of a motion.
2
Swan House is in the medieval hotchpotch of Hastings old town.
3
Claiming that God gave him hotchpotch ''with His own hand.''
4
The programme had several points of interest, but was a bit of a hotchpotch.
5
First they ate "hotchpotch," soup with the meat swimming in capital broth.
1
She took out the ragbag and started work on an area rug.
2
And my clothes looked like they'd come out of a ragbag.
3
The cast's an amiable ragbag of Jarmusch's buddies and collaborators.
4
Why can't I climb out of my gray ragbag?
5
Phil's outfit might have come from the ragbag, too, it was so tattered and patched.
1
They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models.
2
Literally, a show of onions and pumpkins; metaphorically, a mess, gallimaufry.
3
The scum of that yeasty gallimaufry was on the outskirts.
4
I cherished my gallimaufry of rainbow-coloured labels almost as passionately as the miser his hoard of gold.
5
Every family had a few skeletons in their cupboards, but the Vanger family had an entire gallimaufry of them.
1
A livelier and more variegated omnium-gatherum was never assembled.
2
But I do know there was no need to exclude Ned and Polly from such an omnium-gatherum as this party of yours will be.
3
A rustic Olla podrida, an Omnium-gatherum was not to his taste.
1
Why, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one?
Usage of odds and ends in inglês
1
This week, we've got some odds and ends to post concerning fitness.
2
I'm used to scratching up odds and ends when I get hungry.
3
Upon him fall all the odds and ends, the most difficult things.
4
They had also a loft, in which to keep odds and ends.
5
We use them for sending up odds and ends to the garrisons.
6
He remembered having seen some rusty tacks among the odds and ends.
7
Wilson and Meares hang about ready to help with odds and ends.
8
There were also a little box stove and some odds and ends.
9
There were many tempting odds and ends of things to dip into.
10
I keep all my odds and ends there, broken and old-fashioned trinkets.
11
But there were a few odds and ends that needed straightening out.
12
Many were the odds and ends purchased in lots from estate sales.
13
The bottom was half filled with odds and ends, stockings, slippers, linen.
14
Harmony, who did odds and ends of sewing, was most easily spared.
15
I found this only the other day among Harry's odds and ends.
16
There's a clamshell on the same shelf filled with odds and ends.
Translations for odds and ends
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