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Sure-enough   /ʃʊr-ɪnˈəf/   Listen
Sure-enough

adjective
1.
(used informally especially for emphasis).  Synonyms: honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old.  "Had us a high old time" , "Went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"





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"Sure-enough" Quotes from Famous Books



... sprang from a line of clerks and small merchants; but as indemnity for the lack of a family 'scutcheon, we are told that his uncle, Reuben Browning, was a sure-enough poet. For once in an idle hour he threw off a little thing for an inscription to be placed on a presentation ink-bottle, and Disraeli seeing it, declared, "Nothing like this has ever before ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard


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