a todo custo

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === a todo o custo (Portugal) a qualquer custo === Etymology === From a (“at”) +‎ todo (“every”) +‎ custo (“cost, price”), perhaps a calque of English at all costs (literally “at all conditions”, “no matter the possibilities”), where cost refers not to price but to the obsolete sense of “manner”, “option”, “possibility”, being related to choice and (distantly, via Proto-Indo-European) also to Portuguese gosto. === Pronunciation === === Adverb === a todo custo (Brazilian Portuguese spelling) at all costs; whatever it takes Synonym: custe o que custar