AND THEN SOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does and then some mean? 

• AND THEN SOME (adverb)
  The adverb AND THEN SOME has 1 sense:

1. and considerably more in addition

  Familiarity information: AND THEN SOME used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AND THEN SOME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

And considerably more in addition

Context example:

it cost me a week's salary and then some

 Context examples 

He examined them carefully with his lens, and then some dim and vague marks upon the earth beneath.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Measuring about 68 miles (110 kilometers) across, the caldera is deep enough to hold the entire volume of water in Lake Huron, and then some.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

I sat and pondered awhile, and then some thought occurred to me, and I made search of my portmanteau and in the wardrobe where I had placed my clothes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When a seaman did put up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)