here and there

Definitions

1. 1

   In, at or to various places

   In, at or to various places; in one place and another.

   • They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.
   • Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths.
2. 2

   From time to time

   From time to time; intermittently, occasionally.

   • I get the odd day off here and there.
   • Before we study his ideas, it is useful to note here again that extraterrestrial powers intervened here and there in his life, as early as his birth, then his baptism […].
   • Yep. Since nineteen sixty, or thereabouts. Missed a few years, here and there.

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