"if it's the last thing I do" meaning in English

See if it's the last thing I do in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} if it's the last thing I do
  1. At any cost; for certain; indicates the speaker is determined, resolute in doing something.
    Sense id: en-if_it's_the_last_thing_I_do-en-phrase-lS-XQGz4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for if it's the last thing I do meaning in English (0.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "if it's the last thing I do",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'll get into a good college, if it's the last thing I do!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "At any cost; for certain; indicates the speaker is determined, resolute in doing something."
      ],
      "id": "en-if_it's_the_last_thing_I_do-en-phrase-lS-XQGz4",
      "links": [
        [
          "speaker",
          "speaker#English"
        ],
        [
          "determined",
          "determined#English"
        ],
        [
          "resolute",
          "resolute#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "if it's the last thing I do"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "if it's the last thing I do",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrases"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'll get into a good college, if it's the last thing I do!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "At any cost; for certain; indicates the speaker is determined, resolute in doing something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speaker",
          "speaker#English"
        ],
        [
          "determined",
          "determined#English"
        ],
        [
          "resolute",
          "resolute#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "if it's the last thing I do"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.