come hell or high water

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Adverb

come hell or high water

1. (idiomatic) Regardless of the hardships.

   The pioneers were determined to build a community in the wilderness come hell or high water.

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:

     Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.

Related terms

• come what may
• rain or shine
• no matter what

Translations

regardless of the hardships

• Danish: med djævelens vold og magt (literally “by the devil's violence and might”), koste hvad det være (literally “cost what it may”)
• Dutch: wat er zich ook voordoet
• Finnish: kävi miten kävi
• French: coûte que coûte (fr), à tout prix (fr)
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• German: koste es was es wolle
• Hungarian: tűzön-vízen át, ha esik, ha fúj
• Italian: cascasse il cielo, cascasse il mondo, succeda quel che succeda
• Russian: во что́ бы то ни ста́ло (ru) (vo štó by to ni stálo)