英语词汇sure as shootin’的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sure as shootin’
词源	sure as shootin’. An Americanism meaning “for certain” that is first recorded in the mid-19th century, possibly as a euphe- mism for sure as shit.
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