for better or worse

for better or worse
or[for better or for worse] {adv. phr.} 1. With good or bad effect, depending on how one looks at the matter. * /The historian did justice, for better or worse, to the careers of several famous men./ 2. Under any eventuality; forever; always. * /Alex and Masha decided to leave Moscow and come to Chicago, for better or for worse./ 3. (Marriage vows) Forever, for as long as one may live. * /With this ring I thee wed, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, for better or worse, til death do us part./

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