by hook or crook

“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.

And Jack Smith knows that by hook or crook, Trump will try to get those false stories before a jury.

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

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.

It was the last-chance opportunity for Donald Trump to remain president, by hook or crook.