hell or high water

noun, intj, adv — 3 senses

hell or high water

noun

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:

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Corn had to be hoed three times and plowed five in spite of hell or high water2002, John Foster West, Time Was, page 230:

hell or high water

intj

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

adv

1

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:

Related terms: rain or shine, Lord willing and the creek don't rise

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