by fair means or foul
If youtrytoachievesomething byfairmeansorfoul, you use anymethodyou can toachieveit,evenif it is nothonestorfair.
不择手段Ways of achieving things
- actively
- another
- approach
- avenue
- bases
- basis
- device
- fair
- method
- methodological
- methodologically
- methodology
- mixed media
- styleless
- stylistic
- stylistically
- technique
- thus
- thusly
- vehicle
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by fair means or foul
The press feels that if it can get away with writing a storybyfairmeansorfoulit will write it.
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Byfairmeansorfoul, new employers will recognise the savings and will make the changes.
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If the only goals presented to people are materialistic then those are the ones that will be pursuedbyfairmeansorfoul.
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This creates pressure to winbyfairmeansorfouland particularly by means of doping, which is becoming ever harder to detect.
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They were out to get a convictionbyfairmeansorfoul, whether justified or not.
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I would either alter itbyfairmeansorfoul.
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The report shows that they are subject to ruthless and relentless pressure from their head offices to obtain new businessbyfairmeansorfoul.
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They are going to save moneybyfairmeansorfoul.
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The £1·50 for a packet of cigarettes is money that children have a fight to get, or that comes from their parent,byfairmeansorfoul.
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He takes drastic and extreme measures,byfairmeansorfoul, or by hook or by crook, in order to accomplish his own purpose.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Because he grew up in a poor family, he attempted to win boutsbyfairmeansorfoul.
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- reams
- ream sb (out)
- ream-sb-out
- ream someone (out)
- reanalysis
- reap
- reaped
- reaper
- reaping
- reappear
- reappearance
- reappeared
- reappearing
- reapplied
- reapply
- reapplying
- reappoint
- reappointment
- reappraisal
- reappraise
- reappraised
- reappraising
- reappropriation
- reap the benefit, reward, etc.
- reap-the-benefit-reward-etc