sure as shooting

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

From Literature

"A figure in white, remember, fellows; and the one we saw to-night was dressed that way, as sure as shooting!" said Toby, convincingly.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the country wakes up, a large force concentrates at vast expense, and the day of retribution has come, when, sure as shooting, the Bureau has stepped in with restraining hand.

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If we don’t, we never play well, that’s as sure as shooting.”

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“You’re right, Frank, it’s that Lounger, as sure as shooting!” he cried.

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