sure cure

Idioms  

1. A remedy that won't fail, as in Hard work is a sure cure for brooding. Originating in the late 1800s as an advertising slogan (Dr. Keck's Sure Cure for Catarrh; first recorded in 1881), this rhyming phrase was soon extended to other matters.

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sure cure

Being around him is a sure cure for feeling sorry for yourself.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 25, 2019

Dr. Mills emphasized that although there is still no sure cure for Peyronie’s disease, therapy often lessens the problem.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2019

Nevertheless, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is a sure cure for the “mean reds.”

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2016

And medications are no picnic and no sure cure.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2010

I guess, as my poor old mother used to say, the only sure cure for rheumatics is graveyard mould.”

From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.