and

1 use
When we join two or more grammatically similar expressions, we usually put and before the last. bread and cheese We drank, talked and danced.
I wrote the letters, Peter addressed them, George bought the stamps and Alice posted them.
And
is sometimes left out in a very literary or poetic style, but this is unusual. My dreams are full of darkness, despair, death.
2 fixed expressions
Some common expressions with and have a fixed order which cannot be changed. The shortest expression often comes first. bread and butter (not butter and-bread) hands and knees (NOT knees and hands] young and pretty thunder and lightning black and white cup and saucer knife and fork Note: and is usually pronounced /and/, not /eend/ (see above and over16).
For and with adjectives, see adjectives 5: with and.
For rules about the use of commas, see punctuation 4: comma.
For ellipsis after and, in expressions like a knife and (a) fork, the bread and (the) butter, see ellipsis 2: with and, but and or. For singular and plural verbs after subjects with and, see singular and plural 5: plural expressions with singular verbs.5.
For and after try, wait, go, come etc, see and after try, wait, go etc.
For both … and, see both … and.
and
• see and
• + infinitive without to see infinitives 3: without to.4
• after tiy, wait, go etc see and after try, wait, go etc
• both … and see both … and
• ellipsis (leaving out words) after and see ellipsis 2: with and, but and or
• in numbers see numbers.10
• weak and strong form see weak and strong forms.3
• with adjectives see all 2: all of with nouns and pronouns

For more information consult a good dictionary like Langman, Oxford, Merriam Webster, or Collins.