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at all costs

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at all costs
if something must be done or avoided at all costs, it must be done or avoided whatever happens. The only other option is working on Saturdays which is something I want to avoid at all costs. He appears to have decided that he must stay in power at all costs.
See also: all, cost


at all costs
no matter what dangers or difficulties are involved. The country must defend its borders at all costs.
Related vocabulary: at any cost, at any price
See also: all, cost

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We must not, therefore, at all costs keep to the received legends, which are the usual subjects of Tragedy.
But you see a fancy has occurred to me and I want to realise it at all costs.
When she saw once more those composed gestures, heard that shrill, childish, and sarcastic voice, her aversion for him extinguished her pity for him, and she felt only afraid, but at all costs she wanted to make clear her position.
 
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