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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surefire
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Going on holiday with my parents would be a surefire recipe for disaster.
▪ I know a surefire way to get a car started on a freezing winter morning.
▪ There's no surefire solution to the problem of improving the company's performance.
▪ Thursday night's line-up includes such surefire attractions as 'The Simpsons' and 'Friends'.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the one surefire route to holiday hell is to have your credit cards stolen or used without your knowledge.
▪ From this knowledge we hoped to develop a protocol that was much more surefire.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surefire

also sure-fire, by 1864, American English, from sure + fire (v.). Originally of rifles.

Wiktionary
surefire

a. (alternative form of sure-fire English)

Wikipedia
SureFire

SureFire, LLC. is an American company based in Fountain Valley, California. Their main products are flashlights, headlamps, weapon-mounted lights and laser sights. In addition, Surefire makes knives, sound suppressors, Picatinny Rails and batteries. The company is a major supplier of flashlights to the U.S. Armed Forces. Surefire products are commonly used in the US by law enforcement agencies.

Usage examples of "surefire".

Two stunningly unscrupulous people with rich but closefisted families could hardly devise a more surefire means of inducing them to hand over a sackful or two.

He needed a surefire, tried-and-true way to entice those lobsters into the boat and onto the supper table.

His speech included surefire audience pleasers, such as his pledge to pass a hate crimes law and to oppose school vouchers.

A few months ago this would have been a surefire indication of my own barminess, and yet now it signifies only a cold-hearted and pragmatic sanity.

If you're white and you don't like any of the above ideas, or you think they're impractical, then there's always one surefire way to help create a colorblind world--marry a black person and have yourselves some babies!

Putting a joy buzzer in a cadaver's hand was a surefire way to liven up a dull autopsy.

Since Catteni had become addicted to coffee during their stay on Earth, to be able to trade roasted beans would mean they'd have a surefire commodity few Catteni would pass up.

It occurs to me that until my cousin comes upwith a surefire sales pitch to settle things, all thattakin' a peace-maker role is accomplishin' is com-mittin' us not to shoot back when the troublestarts!