"you name it" meaning in English

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Pronoun

Audio: En-au-you name it.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|pronoun|||||||||||||||||||head=}} you name it, {{en-pronoun}} you name it
  1. (informal, idiomatic) All kinds of things; expresses that further examples are unnecessary, often after a short list of items. Tags: idiomatic, informal Translations (you name it): vaikka mitä (Finnish), vaikka missä (Finnish), vaikka minne (note: of places or locations) (Finnish), such es dir aus (German), such dir was aus (German), was auch immer (German), etcétera (Spanish), you name it (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-you_name_it-en-pron-pVsvE8q3 Categories (other): English pronouns

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