somewhere along the line

Definitions

At some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually.

idiomatic

Examples

“[I]t was only a question⟳ of time, after all, when the forgery would be discovered. […] "Somewhere along the line that check has been stolen and raised to twenty-five thousand dollars," he remarked.”

“"I think⟳ it is quite obvious," he said, "that the current atomic-arms race⟳ can not go on forever. Somewhere along the line […] we will have⟳ acquired all the weapons we would possibly need⟳."”

“Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.”

“Somewhere along the line, Christmas became the year's fattest festival. It lost its already tenuous association with the sacred and became a wham-bam, all-u-can-eat, deep-fill stufferama.”

“I don’t think⟳ people even realise⟳ they are doing this. Somewhere along the line this became normal – almost certainly during the pandemic, when we collectively decided that every conscious moment had to be filled with visual and audio content, before we were told to return⟳ to society.”

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