all that jazz

English

Etymology

From jazz (“stuff”).

Pronunciation

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Phrase

all that jazz

1. (informal, idiomatic) Everything else related to something; other similar things.

   He went to school to study math and science and all that jazz.

   • 1964, “My Kind of Town”, Sammy Cahn (lyrics), Jimmy Van Heusen (music), performed by Frank Sinatra:

     My kind of town, Chicago is / My kind of razzmatazz / And it has all that jazz

Translations

everything else related to something; other similar things

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 之類的／之类的, 之類的／之类的 (zhīlèi de)

• Finnish: muuta sellaista
• French: et tout et tout (fr), et tout le tremblement (fr), et tout le bataclan (fr), et tout le tintouin (fr), et tout le tralala (fr), et tout le saint-frusquin (fr)
• German: und so
• Hebrew: כל השאר
• Polish: inne takie
• Russian: и т. п. (ru) (i t. p.)
• Swedish: och sånt (literally “and such”), och så vidare (sv) (literally “and so forth”), och dylikt (literally “and (things) like that”) (rare)

Further reading

• “all that jazz”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present