The phrase "a certain thing and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an unspecified item or concept in a general context, often leading to further elaboration.
Example: "I was thinking about a certain thing and how it might impact our project moving forward."
Alternatives: "an unspecified item and" or "a particular matter and".
You wanted a certain thing and you thought Keith".
They see a certain thing, and they catch it.
"We knew I was going to retire and I was gonna try to do a certain thing and I was going to get smacked down.
"At that first Mozart rehearsal," he said, "I was apprehensive that I would ask for a certain thing and someone would come up and say: 'Maestro, I've actually written my doctoral dissertation on that grace note.
You get all these charts and graphs that say your customer is a certain age, that they live in a certain place, do a certain thing, and then you see the real people.
"I've been fortunate enough to learn from my parents about hard work and dedication and committing yourself to a certain thing and following it all the way to the end," Krayzelburg said in a recent interview.
"If we start dreaming about a certain thing over and over or having similar types of dreams, it's basically our psyche telling us, 'Please pay attention to me.
She believed "nothing could be worse" than being told meaning could only be found in a certain thing – like work – and then having that source of meaning taken away.
I also believe that if Americans buy a lot of a certain thing, the manufacturing and pricing of said thing will naturally find a natural path to being cheaper.
And I think maybe that's what they're referring to -- when someone has done a certain thing a certain way and then they haven't done it for a long time, people want to see them do that again.
You can't do that in fashion because you have to sell a certain thing, pose a certain way and there's this hierarchy that's been created that's not really doing anything for the good of humanity.
