Usually means: Commitment regardless of any difficulty.
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  1. hell or high water: Merriam-Webster
  2. hell or high water: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hell or high water: Wiktionary
  4. hell or high water: Dictionary.com
  5. Hell or High Water (film), Hell or High Water: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. hell or high water: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hell or high water)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Highly adverse circumstances; acts of God.
▸ adverb:  No matter what the adverse circumstances.

Similar:
hell on earth, hot water, hell on wheels, act of God, hell, hellstorm, hellfire, hell and Tommy, hellscape, doom, more...

Opposite:
come what may, no matter what, whatever happens, rain or shine

Phrases:
come hell or high water, hell or high water contract, Hell or high water clause, more...

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Similar:
hell on earth, hot water, hell on wheels, act of God, hell, hellstorm, hellfire, hell and Tommy, hellscape, doom, more...

Opposite:
come what may, no matter what, whatever happens, rain or shine

Phrases:
come hell or high water, hell or high water contract, Hell or high water clause, more...



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