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Definition of Come hell or high water
1. Adverb. In spite of all obstacles. "We'll go to Tibet come hell or high water"
Definition of Come hell or high water
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Regardless of the hardships. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Come Hell Or High Water
Literary usage of Come hell or high water
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"BINGO—come hell or high water! At Mrs. Hunter's suggestion the girls have piled
out to the stables to help Gustave. They will hitch up the old nags and go ..."
2. Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in ...by Mary Cowhey by Mary Cowhey (2006)
"... which will be mailed this afternoon, come hell or high water. That girl is
writing a nonfiction piece about how to build fairy houses. ..."
3. Spectrum Management Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U.S edited by W. J. Tauzin, E. J. Tauzin (1998)
"We are going to get ours come hell or high water. It is one of those deals where
you flip a coin, heads, I win, tails, you lose, and the government makes ..."
4. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth M. Setton (1978)
"Pope Pius II's determination to go himself overseas on the crusade, come hell or
high water, presents one of the nobler pictures of the Quattrocento. ..."
5. Alliance Adrift by Yoichi Funabashi (1999)
"Chapter Six Just in Passing Okinawa Masahide Ota, governor of Okinawa, had sworn
to himself that come hell or high water, he wanted to state his case ..."
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