What is "hell or high water"

adv. No matter what the adverse circumstances. interj. No matter what the adverse circumstances. n. (context idiomatic English) Highly adverse circumstances; act of God.

Hell or High Water may refer to:

• "Hell or High Water" (Prison Break), an episode of Prison Break
• "Hell or High Water", a song by AC/DC from their 1985 album Fly on the Wall
• "Hell or High Water", a song by Kiss from their 1987 album Crazy Nights
• "Hell or High Water", a song by Quiet Riot from their 1995 album Down to the Bone
• "Hell, or High Water", a song by Woe, Is Me from their 2010 album '' Number[s]
• "Hell or High Water", a song by Marc Martel and The Young Canadians which became an unofficial anthem of the 2013 Alberta floods
• Hell or High Water (As Cities Burn album), 2009
• Hell or High Water (Tinsley Ellis album), 2002
• The Hell or High Water EP, a 2010 EP by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• Hell or high water clause, a contract that binds the purchaser or lessee to the terms of the contract until the contract's expiration, even if the terms cause hardship or are impossible
• Hell or Highwater, the side-project of Atreyu's drummer, Brandon Saller
• Hell or Highwater (album), a 2015 album by David Duchovny
• Hell or High Water (film), a 2016 film

Hell or High Water is the third and final full-length album by Christian indie rock band As Cities Burn. According to a MySpace post, frontman Cody Bonnette and a friend of the band, Tyler Orr, recorded the album almost entirely themselves, In the small town of Cleveland Tennessee, on first street. It was released on April 21, 2009, through Tooth & Nail Records. The album has nine tracks with 'Gates' as an iTunes bonus track. This album also features guest vocals from original lead vocalist of As Cities Burn, T.J. Bonnette, on the songs "84 Sheepdog" and "Gates," as well as some from Robert Chisolm of Jonezetta and Micah Boyce from So Long Forgotten on the song "Capo." The album charted at No. 109 on the Billboard 200 in its first week. The hidden track in the pregap was uploaded on the MySpace page of singer Cody under the name "Aerial".

Hell or High Water is a 2002 Blues album by Tinsley Ellis. It was recorded and mixed at Stonehenge at ZAC Atlanta, Georgia by Eddy Offord and Jimmy Zumpano, mastered by Rodney Mills and produced by Eddy Offord with Robert Woods as executive producer and Michael Rothschild as co-ordinating producer. Tinsley wrote all the songs.

Hell or High Water is a 2016 American heist crime film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Taylor Sheridan, whose script was the winner of the 2012 Black List. The film follows two brothers who plan a bank robbery to save their family farm and stars Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges. Filming began on May 26, 2015 in Clovis, New Mexico.

It was previously titled Comancheria. At Cinemacon 2016 in Las Vegas, a standee was presented for the film revealing that the title had been changed to Hell or High Water. It premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2016 and was released in the United States on August 12, 2016.