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sure as shooting
Thesaurus| Adj. | 1.sure as shooting - absolutely certain; "it is sure as shooting that they will come"certain - established beyond doubt or question; definitely known; "what is certain is that every effect must have a cause"; "it is certain that they were on the bus"; "his fate is certain"; "the date for the invasion is certain" | Adv. | 1.sure as shooting - definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come"certainly, for certain, for sure, sure, surely, sure enoughcolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech |
sure as shooting
(as) sure as shootingWith utmost certainty; quite definitely. (That is, as sure as a gun is to fire when its trigger is pressed.) It had to have been Mike who leaked our plans to the press, sure as shooting! Come into a great fortune and, as sure as shooting, the number of those who would be your friend increases tenfold.See also: shoot, suresure as shootingMost 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] See also: shoot, suresure as shooting or sure as shootin' AMERICAN, INFORMALPeople say sure as shooting or sure as shootin' to emphasize that they are certain about something. Sure as shooting, someone will tell me what I've chosen is wrong. It's not the best computer, but it's sure as shootin' not the worst.See also: shoot, suresure as shootingDead certain. This nineteenth-century Americanism may be a descendant of the older simile, sure as a gun, which dates from the mid-seventeenth century and appears in the works of Samuel Butler, John Dryden, William Congreve, and George Meredith, among others. According to S. A. Hammett (A Stray Yankee in Texas, 1853), American southerners drew the comparison from their much-loved rifles and rendered the alliterative cliché.See also: shoot, suresure as shooting
Synonyms for sure as shootingadj absolutely certainRelated Wordsadv definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely')Synonyms- certainly
- for certain
- for sure
- sure
- surely
- sure enough
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