Sooner Or Later

Definition: Sooner Or Later

Sooner Or Later

Adverb

1. Within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time; "he will understand eventually"; "he longed for the flowers that were yet to show themselves"; "sooner or later you will have to face the facts"; "in time they came to accept the harsh reality".

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Synonyms: Sooner Or Later

Futurity

Adverb: prospectively, hereafter, in future; kal, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time; eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum; in after time; one of these days; after a time, after a while.

The Present Time

When; whenever, whensoever; upon which, on which occasion; at another, at a different, at some other, at any- time; at various times; some one of these days, one of these days, one fine morning; eventually, some day, by and by, sooner or later; some time or other; once upon a time.

Crosswords: Sooner Or Later

Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you're going to have to realize the fact that you're a god damn moron. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Sooner or later they'll get me one way or another. (The Grapes of Wrath; writing credit: John Steinbeck; Nunnally Johnson)

Sooner or later we've got to work at it no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.)

And the certainty that sooner or later he would use it against me within the company. (Klute; writing credit: Andy Lewis; Dave Lewis)

You see a girl a couple of t imes a week and sooner or later she thinks you'll divorce your wife. (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond)

Everything crumbles sooner or later (Believe; performing artist: Elton John)

But you'll find out that sooner or later (Do What You Gotta Do; performing artist: Garth Brooks)

'Cause sooner or later it's over (Iris; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

Cause they knew sooner or later hun was gettin' with Jay (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z)

But sooner or later that gentle persuader (Love will turn; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

Sooner or Later (1979)

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Books

• Sooner or Later (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• BBMak: Sooner or Later - Our First Year in America (reference)

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Music

• Sooner or Later (reference)

• Sooner or Later (Tarde O Temprano) (reference)

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Autumn pastimes. Sooner or later some of these hold-up men are going to tackle a callisthenics [i.e. calisthenics] enthusiast --. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Gravity, said Dirk with a slightly dismissive shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." He took a penny out of his pocket and tossed it casually on to the pebbles that ran alongside the paved pathway. "You see?" he said, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later."

Sooner or later, the submerged country floats to the surface and reappears.

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Health

A person who inherits the HD gene, and survives long enough, will sooner or later develop the disease. (references)

Business

The above series of contacts and courtesy calls, while mostly ceremonial, serves to appease those who might later interfere with negotiations, and whose approval will likely be required sooner or later to facilitate business. (references)

Economic History

China

Whenever China was conquered by nomadic tribes, as it was by the Mongols in the 13th century, the conquerors sooner or later adopted the ways of the "higher" Chinese civilization and staffed the bureaucracy with Chinese. (references)

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Expression using "sooner or later": this happens sooner or later. Additional references.

Albanian

më shpejt ose më vonë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏عاجلا أو آجلا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

рано или късно (eventually). (various references)

Chinese 

遲早 , 早晚 (morning and evening). (various references)

Czech

dřív nebo pozdìji. (various references)

Finnish

ennemmin tai myöhemmin. (various references)

French

tôt ou tard. (various references)

German

früher oder später. (various references)

Greek 

αργά ή γρήγορα. (various references)

Hebrew 

במוק�"ם או במאוחר. (various references)

Hungarian

elõbb-utóbb. (various references)

Italian

prima o poi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遅かれ早かれ , 早晩 (eventually), その内 (eventually, of the previously mentioned). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おそかれはやかれ, そうば�" (eventually), そのうち (eventually, of the previously mentioned). (various references)

Pig Latin

oonersay oray aterlay

Portuguese

mais cedo ou mais tarde. (various references)

Romanian

mai devreme sãu mai târziu. (various references)

Russian 

рано или поздно (first or last). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pre ili kasnije. (various references)

Spanish

tarde o temprano. (various references)

Swedish

förr eller senare. (various references)

Thai

ไม่ช้าก็เร็ว. (various references)

Turkish

er ya da geç, er geç (first or last). (various references)

Ukrainian

рано чи пізно, зрештою (at the end, eventually, finally, in the result, ultimately). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: ratooners, resonator.

-5 letters: alterers, antrorse, arrester, arrestor, earstone, entresol, eternals, learners, loosener, oestrone, oleaster, ortolans, ratooner, realters, realtors, rearrest, reasoner, relaters, relators, relearns, relearnt, resonate, resorter, restoral, restorer, retrorse, roseolar, roseroot, sororate, telerans, terranes.