英和和英

前置詞句

in any case

1. (idiomatic) Whatever be the case.
   1. Regardless (of an aforementioned point).

      Synonyms: whatever the case may be, anyhow, anyway, at any rate, in any event, at all events, regardless; see also Thesaurus:regardless

      Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, we can expect to be doing a lot of shoveling tomorrow.

      Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, let's go to bed.

      • 1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107:

        Later Martin said, "If we ever have another baby girl, I'm going to give her a simple name like Mary Jane." When we did have another daughter, we called her Bernice Albertine, after her two grandmothers. Not quite Mary Jane, but at least named for members of the family. In any case, she is known as Bunny,

      • 1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38:

        The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.

   2. Any way one slices it (emphasizing that a point is important no matter what).

      Synonyms: whatever the case may be, at any rate, by any measure, in any event, at all events

      Coordinate term: come what may

      In any case, there are never fewer than two guards on duty here.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in,‎ any,‎ case.

   Their most popular product, an assortment of ales, is packaged such that there are always at least two bottles of India pale ale in any case.

   It is not clear that this particular legal question has ever been a determining factor in any case to date.

   • 1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 53:

     Because of the juristic difficulties associated with the Donation of Constantine, the question of whether the papacy had in any case prescribed its jurisdiction in the patrimony had become a common topic amongst jurists […]

Further reading

• “in any case”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.