there and then

idiom

chiefly British

: immediately at that place

I decided (right) there and then that I would accept the offer.

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Grande got there and then laid down an UNO reverse. —

Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025 As the son of Sicilian immigrants, Serra worked his way up by attending Middlesex Community College, earning a degree there and then at the University of Hartford. —

Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 2 Dec. 2024 The county could potentially consolidate some of its many offices there and then sell it later at a profit when the office real estate market recovered. —

Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024 My strategy was to get all the blocks over there and then start plugging away, but that didn't really work out too well.... —

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