one of those things
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.46 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unfortunate, but unavoidable, event.
noun
A strange or surprising event for which an explanation is unavailable or not worth pursuing.
Example Sentences
- "It was just one of those things: I spent an hour in traffic and then found that the shop was closed."
- "My father was one of those persons who could add a column of figures - even of the ridiculous coinage then in use locally - with a flick of the eye, so that it was natural for him to have in mind that I should become an accountant. As a result, my inability to make any column of figures reach the same total twice caused me to be something of a mystery as well as a disappointment to him. Still, there it was: just one of those things."
- "The moral to this story is that the good research scientist pays strict attention to any peculiar event and does not shrug off a mystery as just "one of those things.""