rain or shine

English

Alternative forms

• come rain or shine, come rain or snow

Pronunciation

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Adverb

rain or shine

1. (idiomatic) Regardless of what the circumstances are, and how the weather is.

   Coordinate terms: come what may, hell or high water, no matter what

   The game will be held on Saturday rain or shine.

   He always showed up right on time, 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:

     This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.

Translations

regardless of the circumstances

• Finnish: satoi tai paistoi
• French: par tous les temps, qu’il pleuve ou qu’il vente, qu’il pleuve, qu’il vente, qu’il neige
• German: komme, was da wolle
• Hungarian: ha esik, ha fúj
• Italian: col bello o il cattivo tempo
• Portuguese: faça chuva ou faça sol
• Spanish: llueva o truene, llueva, truene o relampaguee (es)

See also

• come hell or high water

Further reading

• “come rain or shine” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.