somewhere along the line

Meaning: (idiomatic)At some pointin a process or in a series of events; at someunspecifiedorunknowntime;eventually.1913,Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 1, inConstance Dunlap:[I]t was only a question of time, after all, when the forgery would be discovered.[…]"Somewhere along the linethat check has been stolen and raised to twenty-five thousand dollars," he remarked.1952September 29, “The Atom: Enough Bombs?”, inTime‎[1], retrieved17 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, inOn the Road, Viking Press,→OCLC, part 1:Somewhere along the lineI knew there’d be girls, visions, everything;somewhere along the linethe pearl would be handed to me.2004December 5,Mimi Spencer, “Chanel bag. Tick. Fauchon chocs. Tick. Pata Negra ham. Tick.”, inThe Guardian (UK)‎[2], retrieved17 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.2024July 27, Hannah Ewens, “‘Do you mind listening to that with headphones?’ How one little phrase revolutionised my commute”, inThe Guardian‎[3],→ISSN:I don’t think people even realise they are doing this.Somewhere along the linethis 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.

Examples:

EN: Mr. Clark, somewhere along the line I think you've picked up the nasty habit of lying.
ES: Sr. Clark, ha cogido Ud. la mala y desagradable costumbre de mentir.
EN: Maybe somewhere along the line, we get our signals crossed.
ES: Puede que en algún momento, nos crucemos.
EN: Well, somewhere along the line I got the idea that uh... couple a months ago, Miss Brunner ran out on you and joined a ballet school.
ES: Bueno, no sé dónde, pero tenía entendido que ...hará un par de meses, la Srta. Brunner huyó de ud ...y se unió a la escuela de danza.
EN: Starkie must've got out of step somewhere along the line.
ES: Starkie debió sacar los pies del tiesto.
EN: But from them, some thoughts of my own were born... and the conclusion reached... that somewhere along the line, we women got off the track.
ES: Pero de ellos surgieron algunos pensamientos propios. Y llegué a la conclusión... de que en algún lugar del camino las mujeres nos descarrilamos.
EN: You sure that somewhere along the line in your various dealings... you might not have met him and then forgotten?
ES: ¿Está seguro de que en sus diversos negocios pasados no lo conoció y después lo olvidó?
EN: Only question now is whether somewhere along the line security has been breached already.
ES: Ahora debemos preguntarnos si en el proceso alguien ha burlado nuestra seguridad.
EN: It's very obvious that somewhere along the line... you come from a family that had at least nice table manners.
ES: Con su voz, su barba y su tipo. Es evidente que usted tiene todas las características. Y procede, por lo menos, de una familia que sabe cómo se sirve una mesa.
EN: A few years later, when the .. When other kids were walking their girls through Hammond park on summer nights. He began to think that somewhere along the line he'd been cheated.
ES: Pero más tarde, cuando veía a sus camaradas pasearse con sus amiguitas en las noches de verano, entonces entendió que algo tenía que hacer
EN: Yeah, somewhere along the line I just forgot all the good things.
ES: Quiero decir que tenía buenos amigos. ¡Muy buenos! Y en un momento dado, me olvidé de las cosas buenas.
EN: We start out doin' somethin', meanin' no harm, somethin' naturally in us to do. But somewhere along the line it gets changed around into somethin' bad.
ES: Empezamos haciendo algo, sin mala intención, algo que nos sale natural, pero, en un momento dado, lo cambian y se convierte en algo malo.
EN: I wonder, somewhere along the line, I likely shed about two bits worth of light on how we feel about other countries, you know?
ES: Algún día me gustaría arrojar un poquito de luz sobre lo que pensamos de otros países.
EN: As if this world were almost a twin, except for some minor differences that happened somewhere along the line of evolution.
ES: Bueno, no del todo, sabes. Eh... por lo general, la gente es la misma.
EN: We have to show good faith somewhere along the line.
ES: Pero,señor, si lo hace no vamos a salir con vida de aquí.
EN: Well, somewhere along the line, your drinks caught up with you.
ES: Bueno. En algún momento los tragos te hicieron efecto.

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