rain or shine

• come rain or shine, come rain or snow

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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.

• come hell or high water

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