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dead cert
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Definition:a guarantee; in the bag... dead certainty.
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Blackadder: Right, so we've got sixpence.
Baldrick: Yeah, now all we need to do, My Lord, is to go down the cockfights and put it on a bird that's a dead cert but has got odds of forty thousand to one.
Blackadder: Know you of such a bird?
Baldrick: No. But we could make one.
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Money
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Lenehan came out of the inner office with SPORT'S tissues.
—Who wants a dead cert for the Gold cup?
James Joyce. Ulysses
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