what with one thing and another
You say what with one thing and another when youwanttoexplainthat thereasonyou havefailedto do something is because you have been verybusy:
因为事情一个接着一个，因为忙得不可开交What with one thing and another, Iforgottocallyouyesterday.由于昨天事情一件接着一件，我忘了给你打电话。
Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- across-the-board
- anything
- aught
- bazillion
- bubkes
- fresh
- matter
- nil
- none
- not a dicky birdidiom
- not a sausageidiom
- not/nothing muchidiom
- summat
- sweet
- sweet fanny adamsidiom
- the whole bitidiom
- whatevs
- whit
- zero
- zip
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what with one thing and another
Whatwithonethingandanother, immunities have been much in the news recently.
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Whatwithonethingandanother, this was not to be.
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- palm
- palmar
- palmate
- palmed
- palm-fringed
- palm-fringed
- palm frond
- palming
- palmist
- palmistry
- palm kernel
- palm kernel
- palm-off
- palm-off-with
- palm oil
- palm-oil
- palm print
- palm sb off with sth
- palm-sb-off-with-sth
- palm-sized
- palm-sized
- palm someone off with something
- palm something off
- palm sth off
- palm-sth-off