hither and yon

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

This expression is often used in the country towns of New England for here and there. It is never heard in our seaport towns.--Pickering. Grose has the expression in his Prov. Glossary in the same sense. He calls it a Northern phrase, though it does not appear in Brockett's Glossary.

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