rain or shine

English

Alternative forms

• come rain or shine

Pronunciation

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Adverb

rain or shine

1. (idiomatic) Regardless of what the circumstances are, and how the weather is.

   The game will be held on Saturday rain or shine.

   He always showed up right on time, rain or shine.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.

Related terms

• hell or high water
• no matter what

Translations

regardless of the circumstances

• Finnish: satoi tai paistoi
• French: par tous les temps
• Hungarian: ha esik, ha fúj
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• Italian: col bello o il cattivo tempo
• Portuguese: faça chuva ou faça sol
• Spanish: llueva o truene, llueva, truene o relampaguee (es)