advienne que pourra

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ad.vjɛn kə pu.ʁa/
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Adverb

advienne que pourra

  1. come what may; whatever happens, happens
    Synonym: vogue la galère
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Une intolérable fatigue l'accablait, et elle arriva chez elle hébétée, découragée, presque endormie. — Advienne que pourra! se disait-elle.
      An intolerable fatigue overwhelmed her, and she reached her home stupefied, discouraged, almost asleep. “Come what come may!” she said to herself.

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