other+thing

  • 131be neither one thing nor the other — if you say that something is neither one thing nor the other, you think it is bad because it is a mixture of two different things that do not combine well together. I prefer a book to be either fact or fiction this one s neither one thing nor the …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 132someone or other — someone/something/somewhere/etc or other phrase used when you are not saying exactly which person thing place etc you mean He’s always complaining about something or other. We all make mistakes at some time or other. Thesaurus: determiners …

    Useful english dictionary