rain or shine
English
Alternative forms
- come rain or shine
Adverb
rain or shine
- (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.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- 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
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