blow high, blow low

adverb

Regardless of what else happens; come what may.

Meanings

adverbblow high, blow low (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRegardless of what else happens; come what may.
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    Their captains were the finest men whose services money could secure, and to their care were entrusted the lives of eminent men and women, government despatches, the mails and specie. Rain or shine, blow high, blow low, one of the Black Ball liners sailed from New York for Liverpool on the first and sixteenth of each month, and for many years these were the European mail days throughout the United States.

    1911, Arthur Hamilton Clark, The Clipper Ship Era 1843-1869, Chapter 3
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