How to write "somehow so"?

A rather popular expression today is "somehowso ", meaning" approximately so "," something like that ", strictly speaking, is not literary and is used only in colloquial speech. This, however, does not mean that the rules of spelling for it are not applicable. In the end, even conversational speed is better to write competently.

The main difficulty in this turnover is,of course, the very beginning. How to write: "something like this" or "something like that"? In this case, "somehow" is an adverb that is used to express uncertainty and is written through a hyphen. For example: "Somehow it turned out that Petrov became an elder".

Accordingly, and in the expression "somehow so" to write a particle "something" is needed through a hyphen. For example:

• "How to do it? - Something like this";
• "How did you do it? - Something like that".