| 词汇 | come hell or high water |
| 词源 | come hell or high water. The ancestor of this common ex- pression is apparently between the devil and the deep blue sea. Between hell and high water seems to have been a 20th-century variation on (or deviation from) the earlier phrase. Then the variation took on a life of its own in the ex- pression come hell or high water, meaning “no matter what,” as in “Come hell or high water, I’ll finish it!” |
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