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单词 coûte que coûte
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coûte que coûtephr.

/kuːt kə ˈkuːt/
Forms: Also erron. coûte qui coûte, coûte qu'il coûte.
Etymology: French.
Cost what it may; at all costs.
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the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [phrase] > determination regardless of consequences
at all perilsc1300
sinka1393
sink or swimc1410
neck or nothing1673
coûte que coûte1715
at all costs1810
Sydney or the bush1924
1715 Visct. Bolingbroke 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!
1738 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. vi. 164 Knew what was handsome, and wou'd do't, On just occasion, coute qui coute.
1841 Countess of Blessington Idler in France II. 170 I determined, coute qui coute, to pay a visit to my friend Madame Craufurd.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. vii. 173 All the mother was in arms to secure her daughter's happiness coûte que coûte!
1934 F. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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