odds and bods

English

Noun

odds and bods pl (plural only)

1. (chiefly UK, informal) Synonym of odds and sods (“miscellaneous items”)
   • 2015, Bryn Ellis, Half Trace, page 290:

     Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection.

2. (chiefly UK, informal) Synonym of odds and sods (“ordinary people who lack distinction”)

See also

• odd bod