Meanings
adverbsure as eggs (not comparable)
- colloquialnot comparablesimilesurely; doubtlessly
"Pity for you though, all the same, you could have tried your luck there — she'll open her legs for grammar-school boys, sure as eggs." "But if she's not much to look at anyway," I said […]
1991, Knut Faldbakken, Insect summer
Origin
A shortened form of sure as eggs is eggs.
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