by hook or by crook betydelse and definition

Exempel på by hook or by crook

• It is the technique of all minority dictatorships which, by hook or by crook, seize power.

• Somehow or other, by hook or by crook, this company had to be carried into the next generation of aero-engines.

• All other sources have failed and people are forced by hook or by crook to buy a house.

• It is obvious that that is done for the purpose of getting, by hook or by crook, a particular answer to that question.

• Within the next week or two these people, by hook or by crook, have to get blankets, kitchen tables, linoleum, clothing, etc.

• That is understandable, of course, because they had, by hook or by crook accumulated this mass of people who had to be kept satisfied.

• Yes, he will intervene by hook or by crook—whether they are hooked figures or crooked figures, he will tell me.

• It was complex only because the end gain—privatisation by hook or by crook—was the starting point.