hook or crook

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.

"I wanted to go back but I didn't want to be seen as a failure. I thought, 'I'm a determined young man, I want to succeed by hook or crook in this country,' and that carried me."