APAD: By hook or by crook

Meaning:

 

If someone says they will do something by hook or by crook, they are determined

to do it, even if they have to make a great effort or use dishonest means.

 

Background:

 

A widely held theory is that it comes from the custom of allowing commoners to

take as much wood from royal forests as they could reach with a shepherd's crook

and cut down with a billhook.

 

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While billhook has stayed a weapon and pruning tool, Shepherd's crook seems to

have found applications other than looking after sheep.

 

 

By hook or by crook, sounds familiar...

is it your own graden? beautiful! I love those beans as

they provide good harvest by hook or by crook ;)

by fair and foul. Tks for introducing the origin of it!

造个句：we need to complete the task by hook or by crook.

Just wonder if the term is pejorative or positive.

A bit confused. Is the sentence I just made correct?

Of course. I believe.

Either, depending on context.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do?

I wish :-) It was an ad from some home improvement shop

Thank you for reading. Did you mean "by fair or foul"?

I see. thank U

Right, by fair or foul:) Thanks,my friend!

Thank YOU! It's new to me.

A crook is a bad person. If doing something nobly,

can we still say do it by hook or by crook?

好像有点儿不择手段了。

I think so. The 'crook' here refers to "shepherd's crook."

Some believe the end justifies the means.

Thanks.

I'll shovel the snow on the sidewalk by hook or by crook

For snow, I'd rather go by blower or by plower :-)

恩维并施，拉着骗着，也得要做

直教人生死相许 :-)

by all means

absolutely!

这句接得太有喜感了。不厚道地看笑了。哈哈。

就是要这个效果。越不厚道越好。:-)))