all that jazz
English edit
Etymology edit
From jazz (“stuff”).
Phrase edit
- (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 edit
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024), “all that jazz”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang