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hell or high water en · ADV

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1. (not-comparable) No matter what the adverse circumstances.
   • "The barn goes down tomorrow, rain or shine, hell or high water, with your cooperation or without it." 1992, Barbara Michaels, Vanish With the Rose, page 195:

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Lord willing and the creek don't rise · rain or shine

hell or high water en · INTJ

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1. No matter what the adverse circumstances.
   • I am a man of my word, hell or high water. 1987, James A. Michener, Texas, page 1040:

hell or high water en · NOUN

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1. (idiomatic) Highly adverse circumstances; acts of God.
   • Even though sportswriters are supposed to be impartial, I'm a Brooklyn boyo and Dodger fan through hell or high water, so my beer is Schaefer. 1998, Charles Rosen, Barney Polan's Game: A Novel of the 1951 College Basketball Scandals, page 11:
   • Bankers call this a hell-or-high-water deal because it protects the buyer from the directors and offers from other bidders. 1999, Aaron Bernstein, Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines, page 44:
   • Corn had to be hoed three times and plowed five in spite of hell or high water 2002, John Foster West, Time Was, page 230: