all that jazz

English

Etymology

From jazz (“stuff”).

Phrase

all that jazz

(informal, idiomatic) Everything else related to something; other similar things.
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

everything else related to something; other similar things

Chinese:
Mandarin: 之類的／之类的, 之類的／之类的 (zhīlèi de)
Finnish: muuta sellaista
French: et tout et tout (fr), et tout le tremblement (fr), et tout le bataclan (fr), et tout le tintouin (fr), et tout le tralala (fr), et tout le saint-frusquin (fr)
German: und so
Polish: inne takie
Russian: и т. п. (ru) (i t. p.)
Swedish: och sånt (literally “and such”), och så vidare (sv) (literally “and so forth”), och dylikt (literally “and (things) like that”) (rare)

Further reading

Jonathon Green (2024) “all that jazz”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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