and all that jazz
and all that belongs to it
TRANSLATION
and all that jazz = und das ganze Zeug, das ganze Drum und Dran (LEO, dict:cc) --- GOOGLE INDEX and all that jazz: approximately 990,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Automobiles of the future will be cool and great and ALL THAT JAZZ, but exactly what technologies will help us drive faster, cleaner and safer?
(Digit Magazine)
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Most likely, that's because the British contribution primarily involved the English language, the educational and legal systems, and the political structure, while the French culture historically had more impact on the arts -- music, dance, and ALL THAT JAZZ!
(Fodor's St. Lucia Travel Guide)
(Digit Magazine)
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Most likely, that's because the British contribution primarily involved the English language, the educational and legal systems, and the political structure, while the French culture historically had more impact on the arts -- music, dance, and ALL THAT JAZZ!
(Fodor's St. Lucia Travel Guide)
Did you
know?
and all that jazz
idiom
- used when speaking to mean "and other similar things"
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
The origin of the phrase "all that jazz" is anyone's guess. Like many expressions, it likely just popped into someone's head one day, other people thought it sounded really cool and it began to spread like a lingual virus of sorts. While researching the word "jazz" however, we found no lack of ideas.
Its origin has produced some interesting folklore. But there is more confusion than concrete evidence. Whilst there is not enough space to detail all of the various theories, we can give you a taste of how diverse they are:
- from Jasper, the name of a dancing slave on a plantation near New Orleans in about 1825 whose nickname was Jazz
- a Mississippi drummer named Chas Washington in the late nineteenth century
- from the French chassé, a dance step that had already been turned into the American verb "sashay" as far back as the 1830s
- from one of several African languages, such as the Mandingo jasi (to become unlike oneself), Tshiluba jaja (to cause someone to dance) or Temne yas (extremely lively or energetic)
- from jasmine oil, which the French brought to New Orleans to make perfume
- from an old vaudeville (an American form of slapstick theatre) expression "jazzbo", which was an encore
- first used to describe a ragtime band in San Francisco in the early 1900s that frequently entertained sports writers covering the city's baseball team. One sportswriter then used jazz to describe the team's enthusiasm and spirit. The term eventually spread to cities like Chicago where it apparently appeared in the spelling of the name New Orleans Jass(zz) Band.
"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know"
- jazz great Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) when asked what jazz is…
(World Wide Words, Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
all that stuff, and that kind of stuff
(DH)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I'm going to the cafeteria for lunch today. Today is Italian day. They have spaghetti, lasagne, pizza and ALL THAT JAZZ."
idiom
- used when speaking to mean "and other similar things"
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
The origin of the phrase "all that jazz" is anyone's guess. Like many expressions, it likely just popped into someone's head one day, other people thought it sounded really cool and it began to spread like a lingual virus of sorts. While researching the word "jazz" however, we found no lack of ideas.
Its origin has produced some interesting folklore. But there is more confusion than concrete evidence. Whilst there is not enough space to detail all of the various theories, we can give you a taste of how diverse they are:
- from Jasper, the name of a dancing slave on a plantation near New Orleans in about 1825 whose nickname was Jazz
- a Mississippi drummer named Chas Washington in the late nineteenth century
- from the French chassé, a dance step that had already been turned into the American verb "sashay" as far back as the 1830s
- from one of several African languages, such as the Mandingo jasi (to become unlike oneself), Tshiluba jaja (to cause someone to dance) or Temne yas (extremely lively or energetic)
- from jasmine oil, which the French brought to New Orleans to make perfume
- from an old vaudeville (an American form of slapstick theatre) expression "jazzbo", which was an encore
- first used to describe a ragtime band in San Francisco in the early 1900s that frequently entertained sports writers covering the city's baseball team. One sportswriter then used jazz to describe the team's enthusiasm and spirit. The term eventually spread to cities like Chicago where it apparently appeared in the spelling of the name New Orleans Jass(zz) Band.
"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know"
- jazz great Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) when asked what jazz is…
(World Wide Words, Wikipedia)
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SYNONYMS
all that stuff, and that kind of stuff
(DH)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I'm going to the cafeteria for lunch today. Today is Italian day. They have spaghetti, lasagne, pizza and ALL THAT JAZZ."
