This one was a dead cert for a good time later on.
Of course, there's never been such a thing as a dead cert.
I really didn't know what to say to him, apart from investing in property but that's not a dead cert any more, is it?
Had the winner today till I tipped him a dead cert.
It could also provide a dead cert for some future Gold Cup.
But the one dead cert is that any good view will attract some premium at least.
I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry - it was a dead cert!
If it hadn't changed he would have been a dead cert recruit for the Communist Party of the 1940s.
Yes, the squabble on the French aircraft carrier is a dead cert.
His first novel, Dead Cert, was filmed under the same title in 1974.
Idiome