Idiom Breakdown

come what may

English subjunctive expressions

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Definition

In spite of anything that might happen; whatever may occur.

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"Come what come may, / Time, and the Houre, runs through the rougheſt Day."
"If you vant a more polished sort o' feller, vell and good, have him; but vages or no vages, notice or no notice, board or no board, lodgin' or no lodgin', Sam Veller, as you took from the old inn in the Borough, sticks by you, come what may."
"[W]e are here of a set purpose and we will go forward with it, come what may."
"Still, now the prime minister remains "on message," reiterating that the election will be held in January, come what may."
"May it be, come what may, that I rest all my days in the goodness of Jesus."

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