Weather sayings
What does “come rain or shine” mean?
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Whatever happens: the thing will go ahead regardless.
“Sunday run’s on, come rain or shine.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
A long-standing English phrase, also the title of a 1946 song by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer.
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What I think of “come rain or shine”
Come rain or shine, said nobody who checked the forecast first.
Come rain or shine is a promise I can actually help with.
Rain or shine: a bold commitment from someone who has never met a British August.
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Sources: Common English usage; the 1946 song by Arlen and Mercer.