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词汇 by-fair-means-or-foul
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by fair means or foul


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If you try to achieve something by fair means or foul, you use any method you can to achieve it, even if it is not honest or fair.不择手段
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Examples of by fair means or foul


by fair means or foul
The press feels that if it can get away with writing a story byfairmeansorfoul it 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 pursued byfairmeansorfoul.
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This creates pressure to win byfairmeansorfoul and particularly by means of doping, which is becoming ever harder to detect.
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They were out to get a conviction byfairmeansorfoul, whether justified or not.
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I would either alter it byfairmeansorfoul.
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The report shows that they are subject to ruthless and relentless pressure from their head offices to obtain new business byfairmeansorfoul.
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They are going to save money byfairmeansorfoul.
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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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Because he grew up in a poor family, he attempted to win bouts byfairmeansorfoul.
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