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Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
Michael Crichton

Meaning of "something or other" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOMETHING OR OTHER

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOMETHING OR OTHER

someplace
somersault
Somerset
Somerset House
Somerville
somesthesia
somesthesis
somesthetic
something
something else
something to go on
something´s up
sometime
sometimes
someway
somewhat
somewhen
somewhence
somewhere
somewhile

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOMETHING OR OTHER

another
Big Brother
bother
brother
each other
either
every other
grandmother
in one ear and out the other
mother
no other
none other
one another
one way and another
one with another
or other
other
smoother
somehow or other
stepmother
the other

Synonyms and antonyms of something or other in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «something or other» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOMETHING OR OTHER

Find out the translation of something or other to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of something or other from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «something or other» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

或其他东西
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

una cosa u otra
570 millions of speakers

English

something or other
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुछ न कुछ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شيء أو غيرها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

то или другое
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

uma coisa ou outra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কিছু বা অন্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chose ou une autre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sesuatu atau lain-lain
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

irgend etwas
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

なにやら
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무언가 또는 다른
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Soko utawa liyane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

một cái gì đó hoặc khác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏதாவது அல்லது வேறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काहीतरी किंवा इतर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bir şey veya başka
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

qualcosa o altro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

coś lub inny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

те чи інше
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ceva sau alte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κάτι ή άλλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

iets of ander
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

något eller andra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

et eller annet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of something or other

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOMETHING OR OTHER»

The term «something or other» is regularly used and occupies the 73.488 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of something or other
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOMETHING OR OTHER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about something or other

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3 QUOTES WITH «SOMETHING OR OTHER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word something or other.
1
Michael Crichton
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
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Tony Kaye
As a documentary filmmaker, I'm very respectful, and my interview style is not intrusive. I don't really have an agenda. I just go in there, I mumble something or other, I wait for them to speak, and I wait for them to stop.
3
Charles Lamb
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOMETHING OR OTHER»

Discover the use of something or other in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to something or other and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Paperback with CD-ROM
IDIOM with somehow • somehow or other in a way that you do not know or understand o I'm afraid that somehow or other we spoiled the kids, o Compare SOMETHING OR OTHER at SOMETHING IDIOMS someone /'sAmwsn, -wAn/ pronoun a ...
Cambridge University Press, 2008
2
Reference Grammar of Amharic
Expressions used when a child misbehaves or in curses: ^(D'tlf^V andacc ydwsaddh 'may something take you!', or h"}-^^f' .fceEfcU-flt) andacc ydcuhdbbdh, lit. 'may something scream at you!' 34.7.2. 'Something or other': (1) hlfr : V7C and  ...
Wolf Leslau, 1995
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Plato's Individuals
So unity per se is neither a substance nor a property. Unity, like being, qualifies substances and properties. This is a two-way relation. On the one hand, nothing is "just one," something is always one something or other — its unity and its being  ...
Mary Margaret McCabe, 1999
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The Bible 2.0
He compared their faces to sexual reproductive anatomy then gesticulated so wildly that he something or other. 304. Something or other was quite a tricky fellow and laid under a carpet for quite some time. He collected a wealth of information ...
Nathan Smithe, 1969
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
[Mid-1600s] something of a To some extent, as in Ourprofessor is something ofan eccentric. [Early 1700s] something or other ➧ See under or other. something tells me I suspect, I have an intuition, as in Something tells me that she's not really ...
Christine Ammer, 2013
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Constructivism in Practical Philosophy
On a second interpretation, however, such claims state substantive normative truths, according to which an agent has a reason to take something or other to be a reason, or a will has a reason to have some law or other, or an animal with a ...
James Lenman, Yonatan Shemmer, 2012
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Philoponus: Against Proclus On the Eternity of the World 6-8
For a thing that is outside something or other [than it] is clearly outside of and other than something which has existence, and [clearly] exists itself. And should, on the other hand, that from which the world came to be be formless and [mere] ...
Philoponus,, 2014
8
Experience and Judgment
That is, what is added anticipatively as "some A or other" we apprehend, at the same time, in the form "something or other, whatever it may be," an arbitrary something or other from this open sphere which we represent anticipatively as an open ...
Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Landgrebe, 1973
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Beginning Lua Programming
local F = function() code that does something or other F() -- A failed attempt at a recursive call -- the local F -- is not visible here. more code that does something or other end Instead, you need to create the local first, and then assign the ...
Kurt Jung, Aaron Brown, 2011
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary: The Classic First Edition
as have something to tell you, has lost something or other, take a drop of something (liquor), he is or has something (5. official, s. employment; in the record ojfice, can spare something out of so much, there is somethin (truth, point) in what you ...
H. W. Fowler, F. G. Fowler, 2011

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOMETHING OR OTHER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term something or other is used in the context of the following news items.
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Official: Leicester City Sack Nigel Pearson Because Of Something
Official: Leicester City Sack Nigel Pearson Because Of Something Or Other. by Chris | 30th, June 2015. By Chris Wright. View image | gettyimages.com. You may ... «Who Ate All The Pies, Jun 15»
2
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on why she nodded off at the State of the …
“Because before we went to the State of the Union, Justice Kennedy brought in … it was an Opus something or other, very fine California wine, and I vowed this ... «Salon, Feb 15»
3
Brad Pitt and Robert Zemeckis to make a movie about something or
Brad Pitt and Robert Zemeckis to make a movie about something or other. By William Hughes. Feb 6, 2015 9:45 PM. Facebook; Twitter; Google+; Tumblr ... «A.V. Club, Feb 15»
4
Berkeley demonstrators are mad as heck, about something or other
Gar Smith, activist and keen-eyed Berkeley spy, says that protesters' overnight “pup tents have been removed from around Berkeley's embattled Main Post ... «SFGate, Jan 15»
5
James Bond film called something or other
The announcement that Bond would be driving some Aston Martin or other was hardly worth the waste of breath. I mean it's not as if he'd be driving a [insert ... «Irish Times, Dec 14»
6
Hillary Letter to Saul Alinsky Proof of Something or Other
Saul David Alinsky, born, educated, lived and died in Chicago, Illinois (not a communist, but, seemingly to the eternal fear of the Right, a JEW!!!!) turns out to be ... «The Democratic Daily, Sep 14»
7
Today in Tabs: Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would …
Today in Tabs: Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to ... "the prospect of dying without having loved something more than yourself. «Newsweek, Dec 13»
8
Lifestyles of the Rich and Something or Other
A very New York piece in today's Times about trendy, wealthy New Yorkers who have been acquiring pied-a-terres in newly fashionable Lower Manhattan. «New York Times, Jul 13»
9
Education Is Our Passport To The Something Or Other
But they can never—something about education." Education is the ... More important than... you know, all the other issues combined. "Why is that?" you ask. «The Onion, Aug 04»

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