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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]Advertisement
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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