odds and sods, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

odds and sods n.

[the orig. WWI milit. use defined as ‘“details” attached to Battalion Headquarters for miscellaneous offices, batmen, sanitary men, professional footballers and boxers on nominal duties etc’ Brophy & Partridge (1930)]

(orig. milit.) odds and ends, but used of both objects and people.

1930		(con. 1914–18) Brophy & Partridge Songs and Sl. of the British Soldier.
1955		E. Waugh Officers and Gentlemen 64: They left me behind with the other odds and sods.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 131: There’s no place for any more, not even a few odds and sods like us.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 93: odds and sods is bits and pieces, miscellaneous items or persons.