そこらへん

そこら, そこらあたり, そこらへん

1 〔場所〕 about [around] there; thereabouts. [⇒そのへん 1]

●そこら[そこらあたり, そこらへん]で一休みしよう. Let's take a rest about there.

・どこかそこらにあるだろう. It must be somewhere around there.

・そこらでよく見かける小さい鳥だよ. It's a little bird that you see quite often thereabouts.

2 〔その時点･そのこと〕

●そこらでやめておけ. Finish off with that. | Call it a day at that point.

・そこらあたりが妥当だろう. That should be about right.

3 〔その程度〕 about that; …or so [thereabouts].

●10 キロかそこら ten kilometers or so [thereabouts]; about [around, a matter of] ten kilometers.

●その町の人口は 3 万かそこらだ. The population of the town is in the neighborhood of 30,000.

そこらじゅう all over the place.