one way or another—
1. (also: in one way or another) by some means or other:
- They thought always about winning, and, one way or another, they almost always did win.
2. for any of various reasons:
- Captain Fitzgibbon wouldn’t come back from that last Ulster tour, one way or another.
one way or the other—regarding either of the two possibilities:
- These men cannot both be correct so would somebody produce some evidence to prove the point one way or the other?