expression
like it or not; whether one likes it or not
Set phrase used adverbially, typically followed by a negative expression or a statement about an unavoidable situation. Often appears as 好きでも嫌いでもない or 好きでも嫌いでも…ない.
See also: 好き嫌い (すききらい)
好きでも嫌いでも、やらなければならないことはある。
Like it or not, there are things you have to do.
彼のことは好きでも嫌いでもない。
I neither like nor dislike him.