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Most certainly, as in It's going to snow tonight, sure as shooting, or That grizzly is sure as shooting going to make dinner out of us. This idiom has replaced the older sure as a gun, dating from the mid-1600s, a time when guns fired with far less certainty.
[Second half of 1800s]
The adjective has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
absolutely certain
The adverb sure as shooting has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
definitely or positively; (`sure' is used informally for `surely' as in"they sure smell good"
Synonyms: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough
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 | Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
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