all that jazz
English
Etymology
From jazz (“stuff”).
Pronunciation
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Phrase
- (informal, idiomatic) Synonym of all that.
- He went to school to study math and science and all that jazz.
- 1964, “My Kind of Town”, Sammy Cahn (lyrics), Jimmy Van Heusen (music), performed by Frank Sinatra:
- My kind of town, Chicago is / My kind of razzmatazz / And it has all that jazz
Translations
Further reading
- “all that jazz”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present