or other

Idioms and Phrases

One besides the one mentioned. This phrase is used to emphasize indefinite words beginning with some , such as someone, somehow, sometime, somewhere . For example, Someone or other will be taking tickets at the door , or I can't remember where I put the lawn rake, but it's somewhere or other in the garage , or Somehow or other be found one that matched . [c. 1600]

Example Sentences

His name was Lefty something-or-other, and he was about the sneakiest stool the department had.

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Though this was fair, and that was something else, and a third was so-and-so, yet none of them was Mary Something-or-other.

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Her mother had lived abroad for the past five years, and was now the Princess Somebody-or-other.

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Verny, you know when you told me to salt something-or-other, I thought you meant chowder; so I put in as much as I felt it needed.

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How could he accept something-or-other from such a churl accompanied by a threat?

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