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at all costs
idiom(alsoat any cost); (also mainly USat all cost)
B2
If something must be done or avoided at all costs or at any cost, it must be done or avoided whatever happens, even if it is very difficult or causes a lot of problems:
Security during the president's visit must be maintained at all costs.要不惜一切代价确保总统在访问期间的安全。
This was a situation we had to avoid at all costs.
Their motivation was victory at any cost.
I don't believe in extending life at any cost.
His proposals are outrageous and should be resisted at all cost.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Very important or urgent
all-important
be a matter of life and/or deathidiom
cardinally
chief
co-principal
imperative
last but not leastidiom
leading
life-altering
life-and-death
life-changing
overriding
primary
prime
principally
prior
prized
seminal
tectonic
weighty
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