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sure of oneself
Idioms and Phrases
Self-confident, as in Now that Mary's graduated she's much more sure of herself . This expression uses sure in the sense of “confident” or “secure,” a usage dating from the mid-1400s.Example Sentences
And though I was entering my marriage as she was exiting hers, I felt that our joy came from a similar place: of being in the right place, at the right time, sure of oneself.
One has to be very strong and very sure of oneself to go against the ordinary view of things.
One is as sure of oneself as a woman of thirty, and with as much and as little reason.
The vertigo of life produces itself like the vertigo of heights, when one is not sure of oneself.
One should choose the time when the audience is not yet fully arrived, since, unless one is very sure of oneself, it is a risky matter to appear upon the scene when the house is full, or the guests for the most part assembled.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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