0 If you try to achieve something by fair means or foul, you use any method you can to achieve it, even if it is not honest or fair. --
Because he grew up in a poor family, he attempted to win bouts by fair means or foul.
He takes drastic and extreme measures, by fair means or foul, or by hook or by crook, in order to accomplish his own purpose.
The £1·50 for a packet of cigarettes is money that children have a fight to get, or that comes from their parent, by fair means or foul.
They are going to save money by fair means or foul.
The report shows that they are subject to ruthless and relentless pressure from their head offices to obtain new business by fair means or foul.
I would either alter it by fair means or foul.
They were out to get a conviction by fair means or foul, whether justified or not.
This creates pressure to win by fair means or foul and particularly by means of doping, which is becoming ever harder to detect.
