sure enough
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2.7
- idiom
- /ʃʊr ɪˈnʌf/
:
como era de esperar
- Sure enough, on arriving there I discovered the bird was gone.
- sure enough, a wolf came
He pulls it up and sure enough, purple lightsaber.
- He pulls it up and sure enough, purple lightsaber.
- I go there and sure enough, it's John's house.
- We couldn't worry about that and sure enough I had to go back to work.
- And and then I looked at my emails and sure enough, they were empty.
- And sure enough, she had cervical cancer.
- And sure enough, I realized that it's a timeshare pitch.
- And when they fell asleep, sure enough, the warmer your feet, the faster you fell asleep.
Examples
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After three months, I went home for Christmas break, and sure enough, the guy was right.
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He told me that the restaurant would be busy, and sure enough, we had to wait for a table.
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And two weeks later, sure enough, I got a pair.
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All right, so I run it and sure enough, it shows football.
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And you know, sure enough, like five years later, here we are.
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Well, look, now we have access to this and sure enough, oh, it's broken.
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So, sure enough, they were right.
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I returned to the school and sure enough, there were two police officers.
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I go there and sure enough, it's John's house.
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And so we drive down there and sure enough, it's this house that's on fire.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Showing that something is true or will happen without any doubt
∞
1.0
To say certainly or definitely
∞
1.0
Without any doubt
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2.0
Without any doubt
104
1.3
To be completely sure and have no doubt
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2.3
Says that something is certainly true
5
9.9
You can be certain it is true
1
8.2
Completely certain that something will happen
1
8.8
Certain to happen without any doubt
Says that something will definitely happen or is true
Certain to happen
Antonyms
How Expected
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adverbial meaning 'as expected' is transparently built from 'sure' (certain) + 'enough' (to a sufficient degree), yielding essentially 'sufficiently certain' or 'indeed as expected.' This degree-modifier composition is regular in English and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would very likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Sure enough comes from joining sure, meaning 'certain', and enough, meaning 'fully'. Picture someone who is sure something will happen and then it really does—sure enough is used when something happens exactly like that, 'just as expected'.