at all costs

English

Prepositional phrase

at all costs

1. As an absolute imperative; sparing no effort or expense

   Synonyms: by any means, no matter what, (dated) for any sake, (dated) for any sakes

   We have to retain the majority at all costs.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:

     Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats.

Translations

sparing no effort

• Arabic: بِأَيِّ ثَمَنٍ (biʔayyi ṯamanin)
• Breton: kousto pe gousto (br)
• Bulgarian: на всяка цена (na vsjaka cena)
• Catalan: a tot preu, costi el que costi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無論如何／无论如何 (zh) (wúlùnrúhé), 不惜一切代價／不惜一切代价 (bùxī yīqiè dàijià)

• Czech: za každou cenu
• Danish: for enhver pris
• Dutch: koste wat kost, coûte que coûte (nl), tegen elke prijs
• Esperanto: ĉiakoste
• Finnish: maksoi mitä maksoi, hinnalla millä hyvänsä
• French: à tout prix (fr), coûte que coûte (fr)
• Georgian: მნიშვნელობა (mnišvneloba)
• German: um jeden Preis; koste es, was es wolle (de); was es auch koste
• Greek: πάση θυσία (el) (pási thysía), με κάθε κόστος (me káthe kóstos)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: cóir máireach
• Italian: a ogni costo, ad ogni costo, a tutti i costi
• Japanese: 万難を排して (ばんなんをはいして, bannan o hai shite), 何が何でも (ja) (nani ga nan demo)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çawa be jî, bi çi awayî be jî

• Latvian: par katru cenu
• Persian: به هر قیمتی که شده (be har qeymati ke šode), به هر قیمتی (be har qeymati)
• Polish: za wszelką cenę (pl)
• Portuguese: custe o que custar; a todo custo
• Romanian: cu orice preț
• Russian: любо́й цено́й (ru) (ljubój cenój), во что́ бы то ни ста́ло (ru) (vo štó by to ni stálo)
• Scottish Gaelic: air a h-uile cor
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: под сваку цену, под сваку цијену

  Roman: pod svaku cenu, pod svaku cijenu

• Spanish: a cualquier precio, a toda costa, cueste lo que cueste, a todo trance
• Swedish: till varje pris, kosta vad det kosta vill
• Ukrainian: за будь-яку́ ціну́ (za budʹ-jakú cinú), за вся́ку ціну́ (za vsjáku cinú)
• Vietnamese: bằng mọi giá