and then some
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5.2
- idiom
- Informal
:
y mucho más
- Make Mr Best here his money back, and then some.
- get that and then some
- money and then some
- yes, and then some
Examples
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Those who held on had made their money back and then some within three years.
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The fundraiser exceeded its goal by a large margin, raising thousands of dollars and then some.
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I just want to live the type of life you have and then some.
Blog text (15) -
Everything that could go wrong had, and then some.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's a bunch of bath stuff, some kitchen stuff and then some clothing.
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The bowl is big enough to seat twenty thousand people, and then some.
Academic text (2001) -
We got some delicious Mexican food and then some beer provided by New Belgium.
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You'll surely be able to hold your own and then some in the conversation.
Blog text (13) -
The room itself could easily have swallowed all of her apartment in Manhattan, and then some.
Fiction book (2002) -
It was a success, we hit our goal and then some, and we are so grateful to everybody who donated.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'and' (addition) plus 'some' (an unspecified extra amount) give a clear cue that something extra is being added, so a learner could plausibly infer that the phrase means 'and more' or 'even more'. However, the particle 'then' does not carry its usual temporal sense here and the phrase functions as a fixed colloquial intensifier, so the precise idiomatic force is not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
And then some comes from a simple image of adding extras: you say then and then add some more on top of that, as if there is even more than you first counted. So, it means 'and even more'.