单词 | sure as |
释义 | > as lemmas(as) sure as —— P1. (as) sure as ——: used, preceding a clause or noun, in various similative phrases expressing certainty.Frequently in fixed phrases: (as) sure as God made little apples at apple n. Phrases 6, as sure as check at check n.1 17, as sure as a club at club n. 1d, (as) sure as death at death n. Phrases 6a, as sure as eggs is eggs at egg n. 4b, as sure as fate at fate n. 3a, (as) sure as a gun at gun n. 6a, (as) sure as hell at hell n. and int. Phrases 4b(b), sure as shit at shit n. and adj. Phrases 6b, sure as touch at touch n. Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > of course, certainly [phrase] > beyond question (as) sure as ——a1413 if your cap be of wool1546 as sure as a club1584 (as) sure as a guna1640 (as) sure as God made little apples1796 you can gamble on that1862 no matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it1936 that's for sure1971 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1633 Also seur as red is euery fir, As gret a craft is kep wel as wynne. 1534 tr. M. Luther Agaynst Newe Idole & Olde Deuyll sig. b.vii But this example came from the deuyll, as sure as [Ger. so gewis] god lyueth in heuen. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 70 Take runagate Robin, to pitie his neede, and looke to be filched, as sure as thy creede. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. i. xviii. 88 I see as sure as can bee, that I am borne vnder the constellation of Hercules. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads ii. 32 [He] thought To take Troy now as sure as any thing. 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair v. v. 44 Stand... You'll be serious when I tell you that her Ghost appears. Wild. Her Ghost! Ha, ha, ha... Stand. As sure as Fate, it walks in my House. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 4 Lady Smart. Oh! Colonel, are you here! Col. As sure as you're there, Madam. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. xiv. 290 That's true, as sure as Sixpence, you have hit on the very thing. View more context for this quotation 1824 W. Scott in Edinb. Weekly Jrnl. 9 June 181/3 As sure as ever ye sit there, She'll tell the Bailie. 1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. iii. 44 As sure as the year came round. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. ii. 13 Madam, said I, you'll have to answer for your mother's death, as sure as my name's Dick May. 1944 E. S. Gardner Case of Black-eyed Blonde xx. 194 I'm telling you just as sure as you're sitting there, that if you don't get men out to Jason Bartsler's place, a murder is going to be committed. 2007 L. Samson Embrace Me viii. 124 Get on over to that dock, 'cause sure as rain in spring that girl's going to be there. < as lemmas |
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