somewhere along the line

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somewhere along the line

  1. (idiomatic) At some point in a process or in a series of events; at some unspecified or unknown time; eventually.
    • 1913, Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 1, in Constance Dunlap:
      [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.
    • 1952 September 29, “The Atom: Enough Bombs?”, in Time[1], retrieved 17 June 2019:
      "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."
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
      Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
    • 2004 December 5, Mimi Spencer, “Chanel bag. Tick. Fauchon chocs. Tick. Pata Negra ham. Tick.”, in The Guardian (UK)[2], retrieved 17 June 2019:
      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.

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