Meaning of sure as death and taxes | Babel Free

Definitions

Totally certain.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“Things as certain as Death and Taxes, can be more firmly believ'd: The Devil not have a Cloven-Foot!”

“This bad practice may be followed for years before the runaway follows, but that it will eventually is "as sure as death and taxes."”

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