or else

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1. or else - Adverb

2. or else - Conjunction

3. or else - Phrase

in place of, or as an alternative to

Source: WordNet

alternatively instead conversely either otherwise variously alternately diversely contrarily or differently else preferentially elsewise if not

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A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. Nikos Kazantzakis

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. Hunter S. Thompson

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Norman Mailer

He that would jest must take a jest, or else to let it alone were best. Dutch Proverb

Don't make a mouse of yourself, or else you will be eaten by cats. German Proverb

Put a begger on horseback, and he will ride fast, or else break his neck. Scottish Proverb

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