come what may

Speech parts

1. come what may - Adverb

2. come what may - Phrase

Meaning

come what may (not comparable)

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

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

however anyhow regardless anyway somehow inevitably notwithstanding withal howbeit by hook or by crook come hell or high water in any case all the same at any rate in any event
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Antonyms

given perhaps possibly happen maybe perchance
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Examples

We've gotta roll with the punches Learn to play all of our hunches. Makin' the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition And learn to trust your intuition. Plowin' straight ahead come what may. Jimmy Buffett

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may. Sofia Kovalevskaya

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. Sylvia Plath

Do what you ought, come what may. Italian Proverb

Do what is right, come what may. Spanish Proverb

Do what you ought, come what may. American Proverb

Words in the phrase

come what may

Close letter words and terms

come upwards come useful come visit me come what might come with come with the territory