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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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.
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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....
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Richard Pryor talks about growing up in a brothel and having to sit there and then watch men come in and out of his mother’s room.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
There’s nothing there and then, all of a sudden, there’s life.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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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....
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
Richard Pryor talks about growing up in a brothel and having to sit there and then watch men come in and out of his mother’s room.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
There’s nothing there and then, all of a sudden, there’s life.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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“There and then.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/there%20and%20then. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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