Word info

like it or not

Adverb

Meaning

like it or not

(informal) Used to indicate that something is the case and cannot be altered even if the listener does not want it to be the case.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. Josh McDowell

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not. Emma Thompson

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. James Russell Lowell

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not. Sean Lennon

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not. Tina Weymouth

Try a thing you haven't tried before three times once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to find out whether you like it or not. Virgil Thomson

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