hook or crook

Idioms  

1. see by hook or crook.

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Example Sentences

“Catastrophe” felt more like the first decade of my marriage, which was very confusing, trying by hook or crook to shed bad habits that I had.

From Los Angeles Times

By hook or crook, she was going to see Beyoncé.

From Washington Post

In a jukebox musical set to songs by the pop whisperer Max Martin, May is obviously going to sing, by hook or crook, Britney Spears’s “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” while pondering exactly where on the gender spectrum feels right.

From New York Times

"I wanted to go back but I didn't want to be seen as a failure. I thought, 'I'm a determined young man, I want to succeed by hook or crook in this country,' and that carried me."

From BBC

“There are already doctors recommending booster doses, and there are patients who have gone out there, through hook or crook, and have received boosters already,” said William Schaffner, an infectious diseases professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

From Washington Post