If specific details about something are not important or have been forgotten, we can use phrases with ‘or other‘.
For example:
When you didn’t return and time was getting on,
I imagined you‘d be sticking your nose in somewhere or other
A search in the NOW corpus for:
* * or other .
1 SOME FORM OR OTHER. 197
2 SOME WAY OR OTHER. 139
So the way of treating these diseases in early times was to,
3 ONE WAY OR OTHER. 126
4 SOME GAME OR OTHER. 71
5 ONE REASON OR OTHER. 49
6 SOME TIME OR OTHER. 48
7 ABOUT SOMETHING OR OTHER. 46
8 OF SOMETHING OR OTHER. 46
9 SOME REASON OR OTHER. 46
10 SOME POINT OR OTHER. 43
11 ONE FORM OR OTHER. 43
12 FOR SOMETHING OR OTHER. 39
13 ONE PRETEXT OR OTHER. 36
14 ONE TIME OR OTHER. 26
15 SOME DEGREE OR OTHER. 25
16 SOME STAGE OR OTHER. 22
17 SOME CAPACITY OR OTHER. 18
18 SOME SORT OR OTHER. 17
19 SOME KIND OR OTHER. 16
20 SOME PRETEXT OR OTHER. 15
21 ON SOMETHING OR OTHER. 14
22 ONE POINT OR OTHER. 13
23 IN SOMETHING OR OTHER. 13
24 … SOMETHING OR OTHER. 13
25 OR SOMETHING OR OTHER. 12
26 SOME FASHION OR OTHER. 12
27 SOME EVENT OR OTHER. 11
28 ” SOMETHING OR OTHER. 11
29 TO SOMETHING OR OTHER. 11
30 WITH SOMETHING OR OTHER. 10