by hook or crook

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by hook or crook 的定义

  1. By any means possible, in one way or another. For example, The car broke down, but I'll get there by hook or crook. This term has a disputed origin. A widely held theory is that it comes from the custom of allowing commoners to take as much wood from royal forests as they could reach with a shepherd's crook and cut down with a billhook. [1300s] Also see the synonym by any means.

by hook or crook 近义词

by hook or crook

等同于 somehow

更多by hook or crook例句

  1. “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
  4. A step-by-step plan to break from your various technology addictions.
  5. Those snakes attacked unwitting passers-by, or invaded homes and hotels.
  6. All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
  7. John was baptizing at a large pool called Ænon-by-Saleim,—probably allegorical, meaning “Fountain of Repose.”
  8. The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
  9. I saw every crook in the fence, every rut in the road, every bush and tree long before we came to it.
  10. Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.