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# {{context|idiomatic}} Regardless of what the [[circumstance]]s are, and how the [[weather]] is.
# {{context|idiomatic|lang=en}} Regardless of what the [[circumstance]]s are, and how the [[weather]] is.
#: ''The game will be held on Saturday '''rain or shine'''.''
#: ''The game will be held on Saturday '''rain or shine'''.''
#: ''He always showed up right on time, '''rain or shine'''.''
#: ''He always showed up right on time, '''rain or shine'''.''

Revision as of 20:05, 18 June 2013

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Adverb

rain or shine

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

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