one thing and another

phrase

: various things that have happened

What with one thing and another, we still haven't finished.

Examples of one thing and another in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hearing this, Carol is repulsed; to her, the ability to tell the difference between one thing and another is one of the best parts about being human. — Maris Kreizman, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025

As soon as the differences between one thing and another are established, a germ of rebellion is born in me. — Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024

The situation has reached a strange netherworld of off-the-record confirmations and denials where one set of sources says one thing and another says the opposite, and most likely no one is telling the whole truth. — Jem Aswad Variety Entertainment News Service, al, 23 Aug. 2023

The boundaries between one thing and another are always blurry and changing, if not actually nonexistent. — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023

Rhymes for one thing and another

• brother
• mother
• nother
• other
• smother
• souther
• godmother
• grandmother
• stepbrother
• stepmother