as sure as a gun

as sure as a gun

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh í n á Ji ǔ w ě n, which means that the metaphor is very sure. It's from "swallow note · purchasing luck".

The origin of Idioms

Ruan Dacheng of the Ming Dynasty wrote "swallows note · purchase luck": "this is a matter of ten to one's success, and one must win."

Idiom usage

The tenth chapter of biography of heroes and heroines written by Wen Kang of Qing Dynasty: "such a line; I'm afraid it's not certain that this case will be secure." Chapter 24 of Li Baojia's the appearance of officialdom in Qing Dynasty: all the people who came to do the big work kept this secret, so this time master Jia's recommendation was sure. "My uncle Yu Le:" we have worked out thousands of plans for the safe return of my uncle. We even plan to use his money to buy a villa

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: safe, secure antonym: full of holes, full of flaws