| 单词 | hell and high water |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell and (also or) high water d. hell and (also or) high water: any great difficulty or obstacle; esp. in come hell or high water. Similarly hell nor high water. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > a great difficulty Pelion1560 hill1645 hell and (also or) high water1872 1872 Papers Case T. Bowles vs. J. Edwards 33 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (42nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. No. 22) I They might fight him..but he was going there in spite of hell and high water. 1882 Burlington (Iowa) Weekly Hawk-eye 4 May 4/4 De devil had brook loose in many parts ob de country, and', keepin' up wid de ole sayin', we've had unrevised hell and high water. 1918 C. E. Mulford Man from Bar-20 xii. 120 Logan found out that he was a real man, a gun-man, an' not scared of h—l an' high water. 1939 A. Keith Land below Wind i. ii. 26 ‘Let empires be built!’—and, come hell or high water, they build 'em. 1939 P. I. Wellman Trampling Herd viii. 93 ‘In spite of hell and high water’..is a legacy of the cattle trail when the cowboys drove their horn-spiked masses of longhorns through high water at every river and continuous hell between. 1963 R. A. Smith Corporations in Crisis 41 He..let neither hell nor high water stand in the way of his attack on them. 1995 I. Rankin Let it Bleed (1996) iv. 34 It was the one appointment he'd known all day he would keep, come hell or high water. 2004 Global Rhythm Jan. 13 He's been through hell and high water putting together his latest project. < as lemmas |
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