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do-or-die
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
do-or-die
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The airline spent $120 million in a do-or-die effort to save the company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Besides, his own party's do-or-die tendency will now be vigilant against any hint of gradualism.
▪ I was very dismayed that I couldn't enjoy swapping ideas with Brian any more without things turning into a do-or-die debate.
▪ That do-or-die Davy Blooming Crockett spirit.
▪ This do-or-die attitude clashes with the caution advocated by the naive inductivist.
Wiktionary
do-or-die

a. (context idiomatic English) Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure. alt. (context idiomatic English) Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure.

WordNet
do-or-die

adj. desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict" [syn: desperate, do-or-die(a)]

Usage examples of "do-or-die".

This was not, technically, the place for a cavalry battalion commander to be, in the hatch of an Abrams leading a do-or-die charge into the face of two million enemies.

But after six weeks in the company of the Wedge’s boisterous do-or-die commandos, what I wanted more than anything was to be alone for a while.

The Elders' relatively speedy acceptance of his argument that further attacks would be in vain had been a welcome surprise, and if Simonds' decision to reinforce the fortifications scattered about the Endicott System was pointless, it also beat hell out of a do-or-die assault on Grayson.

The trial of the Biltmore Five was no longer a do-or-die cause for La Raza, but a shameful crime that a handful of radical dope fiends had brought down on the whole community.