英语词汇sure as eggs is eggs的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sure as eggs is eggs
词源	sure as eggs is eggs. This 17th-century expression, for “a cer- tainty,” almost certainly has no connection with eggs. Eggs here is probably a corruption of X in a mathematical formula, the expression originally being as sure as X is X.
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