at all costs
No matter what
At all costs means regardless of what must be sacrificed or endured—no price is too high, no effort too great.
The phrase emphasizes determination to achieve something: We must protect the village at all costs, She was determined to win at all costs.
Sometimes carries a warning about recklessness when the goal doesn't justify extreme measures.
- by hook or by crookUsing whatever method works
- whatever it takesAny necessary action
- hell or high waterAbsolute determination phrase
- riskPossibility of harm
- fight to the deathContest ending in killing
grit · exigency · do or die · damn the torpedoes · perseverance · no matter what · steadfastness · selflessness · leave no stone unturned · spare no expense · come what may · sink or swim · tenacity · commitment · martyrdom · altruism · move heaven and earth · imperative
at all costshalfheartedly
Without real interest
half-heartedly · indifferently · apathetically · tepidly · unenthusiastically
at all costswithin reason
To a sensible degree
conditionally · if possible · up to a point · to a degree · tentatively