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hell or high water

noun

Definitions

  1. Highly adverse circumstances

    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.
    • Bankers call this a hell-or-high-water deal because it protects the buyer from the directors and offers from other bidders.
    • Corn had to be hoed three times and plowed five in spite of hell or high water

  2. No matter what the adverse circumstances.

    • I am a man of my word, hell or high water.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hell or high water. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA