{adv. phr.} Even if troubles come; no matter what happens; in spite of opposition or mischance. * /Charles has decided to get a college education, come what may./ * /The editor says we will publish the school paper this week, come what may./
{adv. phr.} Even if troubles come; no matter what happens; in spite of opposition or mischance. * /Charles has decided to get a college education, come what may./ * /The editor says we will publish the school paper this week, come what may./
at all events, at all risks, at any cost, at any price, compulsorily, from necessity, live or die, necessarily, need, needfully, needs, nolens volens, of necessity, perforce, rain or shine, requisitely, ruat caelum, sink or swim, whatever may happen, whatever the cost, willy-nilly, without choice, without fail