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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.
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.
Her mother had lived abroad for the past five years, and was now the Princess Somebody-or-other.
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.
How could he accept something-or-other from such a churl accompanied by a threat?
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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