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sure-fire

adjective
🔊/ˈʃʊə faɪə(r)/, 🔊/ˈʃɔː faɪə(r)/
🔊/ˈʃʊr faɪər/
 [only before noun] (informal)
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  1. certain to be successful or to happen as you expect必定成功的；肯定会发生的
    • a sure-fire success定能获得的成功
    • Bad behaviour is a sure-fire way of getting people’s attention.恶劣行为肯定会惹人注意的。
    Topics Doubt, guessing and certaintyc2, Successc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySure-fire is used with these nouns:
    • recipe
    • way
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