WordNet
adj. absolutely certain; "it is sure as shooting that they will come"
adv. definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough]
Usage examples of "sure as shooting".
Anything else, she would have sicked it up, almost as sure as shooting.
Because sure as shooting, something is going on around here that I can’.
Leave 'em behind, and as sure as shooting you'll finish up living off blood-stained snow and dead mules.
Unless they can find their way back to the bay, they'll die, sure as shooting.
I'll get picked up sure as shooting if I try to barge along on my own.
But some time, as sure as shooting, in cogitating proudfully over it, you would come to an abrupt realization that that idea had been oozed into your brain by Colonel House in the course of conversation.
When she shyly repeated she'd known it would be grand with him, although not this grand, he was too polite to observe she'd sure as shooting done it with somebody a lot to get that good at losing her virginity.
But, of course, if one of them does that this far out, it's sure as shooting that there'll be more and meaner ones closer in.
But unless we find some answers right fast, Tom will lose his license sure as shooting.
But I sure as shooting wasn't dreaming 'bout the feller what stepped on my corn.