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sure as shooting

Idioms

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]

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sure as shooting

All sweeping statements should be qualified or trouble will ensue, sure as shooting.

From Time Magazine Archive

But sure as shooting, this was the other person the Preacher said we were gonna have to go see.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

And you sure as shooting don’t need an outhouse if you don’t have folks living nearby.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

If the clouds part again they will see me, sure as shooting.

From The Lost Kafoozalum by Ashwell, Pauline

We’ll do our six miles an hour, sure as shooting!

From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Hough, Emerson

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