(as) sure as shooting Idiom
shooting fish in a barrel
a task that is too easy, a game without challenge We won 18-2. It was like shooting fish in a barrel.
shooting match
(See the whole shooting match)
the whole shooting match
everything, every bit/piece/person Wagon, horses, load - the whole shootin' match disappeared.
whole shooting match
(See the whole shooting match)
straight-shooting|shooting|straight
adj. The boys all liked the straight-shooting coach.
like shooting fish in a barrel
like shooting fish in a barrel Ridiculously easy, as in
Setting up a computer nowadays is like shooting fish in a barrel. This hyperbolic expression alludes to the fact that fish make an easy target inside a barrel (as opposed to swimming freely in the sea). [Early 1900s]
sure as shooting
sure as shooting Most certainly, as in
It's going to snow tonight, sure as shooting, or
That grizzly is sure as shooting going to make dinner out of us. This idiom has replaced the older
sure as a gun, dating from the mid-1600s, a time when guns fired with far less certainty. [Second half of 1800s]
(as) abiding as shooting
With absolute certainty; absolutely definitely. (That is, as abiding as a gun is to blaze back its activate is pressed.) It had to accept been Mike who leaked our affairs to the press, abiding as shooting! Come into a abundant affluence and, as abiding as shooting, the cardinal of those who would be your acquaintance increases tenfold.Learn more: shoot, sureSure as shooting!
Inf. Absolutely yes! (An addition of Sure.) Bill: Are you activity to be there Monday night? Bob: Abiding as shooting! Bob: Will you booty this over to the capital office? Bill: Abiding as shooting!Learn more: suresure as shooting
Most certainly, as in It's activity to snow tonight, abiding as shooting, or That grizzly is abiding as cutting activity to accomplish banquet out of us. This argot has replaced the earlier sure as a gun, dating from the mid-1600s, a time back accoutrements accursed with far beneath certainty. [Second bisected of 1800s] Learn more: shoot, suresure as shooting
or sure as shootin'
AMERICAN, INFORMALPeople say sure as shooting or sure as shootin' to accent that they are assertive about something. Sure as shooting, addition will acquaint me what I've called is wrong. It's not the best computer, but it's abiding as shootin' not the worst.Learn more: shoot, suresure as shooting
Dead certain. This nineteenth-century Americanism may be a brood of the earlier simile, sure as a gun, which dates from the mid-seventeenth aeon and appears in the works of Samuel Butler, John Dryden, William Congreve, and George Meredith, amid others. According to S. A. Hammett (A Stray Yankee in Texas, 1853), American southerners drew the allegory from their much-loved rifles and rendered the alliterative cliché.Learn more: shoot, sure