or else

Idioms  

1. Otherwise, in different circumstances, as in Present your case now, or else you won't have a chance . [c. 1300]

2. Regardless of any extenuating circumstances, no matter what, as in Be there on time or else! [Second half of 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Chase began to think they were walking backward instead of forward, or else that the GPS was wrong.

From Literature

“I had to create this character or else I was going to become him.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“I do what you do when I’m sick: tell you stay in bed or else.”

From Literature

But the companies still have to make money, Windsor said, or else “the whole proposition will grind to a halt while the market figures out the economic way forward.”

From MarketWatch

The children know to text before they come home, or else the door won't open when they knock.

From Barron's