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What does hither and yon mean?

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Adverb
  1. In, at or to various places.
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They had been aimlessly shining their torches hither and yon for an hour, when Manny unleashed his galling swan song.
I have literally dozens of the things scattered hither and yon on the bench but the one I need never seems to be there.
A proud parliament would not allow itself to be moved hither and yon around Europe, like the Barnham and Bailey Circus.
Dirty clothes were strewn hither and yon, along with crumpled paper balls.
Her tone, thank the Lord, is unpresuming, but her life has been full of thrills, from an ambassadorial childhood in Syria and Peru, to motherhood in south Devon and travels hither and yon.
The plot twists hither and yon, but there isn't the smallest real tension hanging on this stylised arrangement.

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