@stimuloog I'm not saying anything! No, it just occurred to me that, having chosen your subject, you are pretty well stuck with it, come hell or high water (and I just wonder where that saying has come from, I'll have to research it)!
@stimuloog "come hell or high water" - nobody knows apparently. The meaning is fairly well understood to be "whatever happens", but it's a fairly recent phrase (first appeared in a lexicon in 1915), and American.