somehow or other

idiom

—used when the specific details about how something is or was done are not important or have been forgotten

Somehow or other, we managed to get all of the boxes into the car.

Examples of somehow or other in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And somehow or other, nobody mentioned Mike Trout, until the 15th voter weighed in. —Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025

But somehow or other, that inning at Wrigley wasn’t even the Strangest But Truest inning of the day. —Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024

Sooner or later, somehow or other, Trump or no Trump, the United States will try to stop China’s rise. —Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2017

Just who is behind the death of Burke Dennings, an obnoxious British film director who has somehow or other plunged from the window of a Georgetown rowhouse? —Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023

But somehow or other, the general public didn’t get that feeling that the vulnerable are really, really heavily weighted toward the elderly. —Steve Mollman, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2023

Rhymes for somehow or other

• another
• godmother
• grandmother
• stepbrother
• stepmother
• brother
• mother
• nother
• smother
• souther