Green’s Dictionary of Slang

and then some! excl.

also and then plenty!
[Partridge suggests an origin in 18C Scot. and some]

(orig. US) rejoinder to the last speaker, that’s not all of it, either!

‘Yeslah’ A Tenderfoot in Southern Calif. ii 22: It rains in sheets, in blankets, and in comforters, and then some [DA].
[US]W.M. Raine Brand Blotters (1912) 73: Never knew a hold-up wasn’t eight foot high and then some.
[US]F. Hurst ‘White Goods’ in Humoresque 160: This has got your Twenty-third Street dump beat a mile, and then some.
[US]M.C. Sharpe Chicago May (1929) 165: The men, however, took the hint — and then some. They knifed every bag within reach, and knifed copiously.
[US](con. late 1920s) L. Hughes Little Ham Act I: I’ll blow you from here back before prohibition, and then some.
[UK]P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 70: I could go for you one hundred per cent an’ then plenty.
[UK]Whizzbang Comics 98: He’s all that – and then some.
[US]‘Weldon Hill’ Onionhead (1958) 95: He knew whole works about cooking, and then some.
[US]Kerouac letter 9 Sept. in Charters II (1999) 382: Only hope you get enough money to realize the 2 G’s I owe you and THEN some.
[US]T. Thackrey Thief 429: Roger had all the shakes you can get and then some.
[UK]J. Sherwood Botanist at Bay 92: She’s in possession of all her faculties and then some.
[US]C. Hiaasen Lucky You 314: ‘I’ll tell you whatever you want to know.’ ‘And then some,’ Mary Andrea said, under her breath.
[US]G. Tate Midnight Lightning 138: And then there’s James. Who somehow manages to hit all the notes they hit and then some.
[US] M. McBride Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] I’ll pay ya more than I owe’n then some.