dead certainty
Example Sentences
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If you haven’t actually fixed anything, it’s a dead certainty the enigmatic bug will return sometime in the future at the worst possible moment.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2013
General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous.
From Time Magazine Archive
That I shall suffer for, to a pretty dead certainty.
From The Shadow of a Man by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Heigho! it might be a dead certainty too, though that, children, is only my little joke.
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Gordon Stables
There’s no way of climbing these infernal cliffs; leastways, not with our horses, and without them, we might almost as well stop here, for we should be overhauled and lugged back to a dead certainty.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
