dead cert

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.

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!

Yes, the squabble on the French aircraft carrier is a dead cert.

That probably means it's a dead cert, then.

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?

His first novel, Dead Cert, was filmed under the same title in 1974.

Extrapolate the trends of the last 40 years and such a depressing scenario looks like a dead cert.

As far as I can see, you're a dead cert.'

Dead cert: Dead certainty, a horse or team that is considered highly likely to win.

A weak field with no dead cert.

But if there were a Brit Award for fiction, say, it ought to have been a dead cert.

Dead Cert is a 1974 crime film directed by Tony Richardson.

He played one of the lead roles in the British vampire film Dead Cert.

In 1962, he published his first thriller, Dead Cert, set in the world of racing.

And the CPS was notoriously difficult to interest in anything other than a dead cert.

The thing's a dead cert.

But that one was a cert, a dead cert.'

If it hadn't changed he would have been a dead cert recruit for the Communist Party of the 1940s.

I thought George Shaw was a dead cert to win, with his suburban Coventry.

It's almost a dead cert.