Meanings
alternative come rain or shine · alternative come rain or snow
- idiomaticRegardless of the circumstances; (more literally) regardless of the state of the weather.
The game will be held on Saturday rain or shine.
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He always showed up right on time, rain or shine.
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 3This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Translations
Finnish satoi tai paistoi
- satoi tai paistoiregardless of the circumstances
French par tous les temps, qu'il pleuve ou qu'il vente
- par tous les tempsregardless of the circumstances
- qu'il pleuve ou qu'il venteregardless of the circumstances
- qu'il pleuve, qu'il vente, qu'il neigeregardless of the circumstances
German komme, was da wolle
- komme, was da wolleregardless of the circumstances
Hungarian ha esik, ha fúj
- ha esik, ha fújregardless of the circumstances
Italian col bello o il cattivo tempo
- col bello o il cattivo temporegardless of the circumstances
Polish słońce czy deszcz
- słońce czy deszczregardless of the circumstances
Portuguese faça chuva ou faça sol
- faça chuva ou faça solregardless of the circumstances
Spanish llueva o truene, llueva, truene o relampaguee
- llueva o trueneregardless of the circumstances
- llueva, truene o relampagueeregardless of the circumstances
Cite this entry
rain or shine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rain%20or%20shine
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