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sure as death or taxes

sure as death or taxes is the alternative form of sure as death and taxes.

Meaning of sure as death and taxes

Adjective

sure as death and taxes (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Totally certain.
    • Time, with his stealing steps, hath clawed me in his clutch, as the old song says: And this cursed gout; but it is what we must all come to. Nothing so sure as death and taxes.1824, Jonathan Swift, The novels of Swift, Bage and Cumberland, Hurst, Robinson, and Company, page 425

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Questions about sure as death or taxes

What is sure as death or taxes the alternative form of?
Sure as death or taxes is the alternative form of sure as death and taxes.

Words near sure as death or taxes in the dictionary

  1. Surduc
  2. sure
  3. sure as a gun
  4. sure as death
  5. sure as death and taxes
  6. sure as death or taxes
  7. sure as eggs
  8. sure as eggs are eggs
  9. sure as eggs is eggs
  10. sure as fate
  11. sure as shit

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