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Sure-fire   /ʃʊr-fˈaɪər/   Listen
Sure-fire

adjective
1.
Certain to be successful.





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"Sure-fire" Quotes from Famous Books



... made too, by throwin' a couple of servants' rooms into one and addin' a big skylight. There was the regulation fishnet draped around, and some pieces of tin armor and plaster casts, which proves as well as a court affidavit that here's where the real, sure-fire ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
... communication. "We dropped twenty thousand cool on 'Miss Cut-up,' and those sixteen pairs of legs cost us fifteen hundred a week. We might be in danger of starving right here on Broadway, if we hadn't picked a sure-fire hit in ...
— Blue-grass and Broadway • Maria Thompson Daviess
... most sure-fire improver of compost quality is time. Making a heap with predominantly low C/N materials inevitably results in potent compost if nitrate loss is kept to a minimum. But the C/N of almost any compost heap, even one starting with a high C/N ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon


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