certainty *
sure thing
foregone conclusion

The way you feel is no sure thing to go on.

"Will you look in on her sometimes and make sure things are all right?"

It would have been a sure thing to hit them.

I tried to sound as if it was a sure thing.

That does not mean the deal is anything close to a sure thing.

He was supposed to be a sure thing by now.

"And for a while it looked as if they had a sure thing."

I can't tell you the number of sure things that didn't make it.

I say seems because nothing is a sure thing when it comes to this guy.

But it wasn't going to be a sure thing, whatever we did.