单词 | coûte que coûte |
释义 | ‖ coûte que coûte|kut kə kut| Also erron. coûte qui coûte, coûte qu'il coûte. [Fr.] Cost what it may; at all costs.
1715Bolingbroke Let. in P. M. Thornton Stuart Dynasty (1890) 397, I could heartily wish yt Campion might be come back to ye coast of Britanny, before your Majty sail'd, which he will attempt coute qu'il coute! 1738Pope Imit. Horace, Sat. ii. vi. 17 Knew what was handsome, and wou'd do't, On just occasion, coute qui coute. 1841C'tess Blessington Idler in France II. 170, I determined, coute qui coute, to pay a visit to my friend Madame Craufurd. 1863Reade Hard Cash I. vii. 173 All the mother was in arms to secure her daughter's happiness coûte que coûte! 1934F. Stark Valleys of Assassins i. 21 We should have lunch first, said the policeman, anxious coûte que coûte to make us do something we had not intended. |

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