(as) sure as a gun

obsolete With utmost certainty; quite definitely. (That is, as sure as a gun is to fire when its trigger is pressed. This idiom has largely been replaced with the phrase "sure as shooting.") Lord Henry, sure as a gun it was those two miscreants who have made off with your prized heifer. Come into a great fortune and, as sure as a gun, the number of those who would be your friend increases tenfold.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alessandro	ahl-e-SAHN-dro	Italian
Muhammet	-	Turkish
Beatrice	be-ah-TREE-che (Italian), BEE-ə-tris (English), BEE-tris (English), BE-ah-trees (Swedish), be-ah-TREES (Swedish)	Italian, English, Swedish
AfËRdita	ah-fər-DEET-ah	Albanian
Daiva	-	Lithuanian
Maurine	maw-REEN, MAWR-een	English, Irish