See by hook or by crook on Wiktionary
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"text": "He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook.",
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"ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198, column 1:",
"text": "I wouldn't have believed it of myself; but, then—you see—I felt somehow I must get there by hook or by crook.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1936 August, Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 14 October 1938, →OCLC, page 158:",
"text": "He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"By any means possible; one way or another."
],
"links": [
[
"means",
"means#Noun"
],
[
"possible",
"possible#Adjective"
],
[
"one way or another",
"one way or another"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) By any means possible; one way or another."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "at all costs"
},
{
"word": "by any means"
},
{
"word": "by fair means or foul"
},
{
"word": "no matter what"
},
{
"word": "whatever it takes"
},
{
"word": "with hook or crook"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/baɪ ˈhʊk‿ə baɪ ˈkɹʊk/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/baɪ ˈhʊk‿əɹ baɪ ˈkɹʊk/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/En-au-by_hook_or_by_crook.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊk"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "by hook and by crook"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de grat o per força"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de tota manera"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "不擇手段"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "不择手段 (bùzéshǒuduàn, literally “not choose between methods”)",
"sense": "by any means possible"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "千方百計"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "千方百计 (qiānfāngbǎijì, literally “a thousand methods and a hundred calculations”)",
"sense": "by any means possible"
},
{
"code": "da",
"english": "no matter the cost",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "koste hvad det vil"
},
{
"code": "da",
"english": "by a great effort",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "med hiv og sving"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "keinolla millä hyvänsä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "puukoin ja puntarein"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "coûte que coûte"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de gré ou de force"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "quoi qu’il en coûte"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "como for"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "por calquer xeito"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "auf Biegen und Brechen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "auf Teufel komm raus"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "mit Haken und Ösen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "um jeden Preis"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "bármi áron"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "bármilyen eszközzel"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "ha törik, ha szakad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "mindenáron"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "per amore o per forza"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "unde unde"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "nie przebierając w środkach"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "como for"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "por bem ou por mal"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ne mytʹjóm, tak kátanʹjem",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "не мытьём, так ка́таньем"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsémi právdami i neprávdami",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "все́ми пра́вдами и непра́вдами"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "a dh'olc no a dh'èiginn"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "olc no èiginn"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de grado o por fuerza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "de una forma u otra"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "por todos los medios"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "på ett eller annat sätt"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "på ett eller ett annat sätt"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "på ett sätt eller annat"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "ēdō vidhaṅgā",
"sense": "by any means possible",
"word": "ఏదో విధంగా"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"note": "ไม่ได้ด้วยเล่ห์ก็เอาด้วยกล ไม่ได้ด้วยมนต์ก็เอาด้วยคาถา (mâi-dâai-dûai-lêe-gɔ̂-ao-dûai-gon mâi-dâai-dûai-mon-gɔ̂-ao-dûai-kaa-tǎa, literally “If you can’t get it through tricks, use wiles; if you still can’t get it by spells, then use charms”)",
"sense": "by any means possible"
}
],
"word": "by hook or by crook"
}
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