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sure cure
Idioms and Phrases
A remedy that won't fail, as in Hard work is a sure cure for brooding . Originating in the late 1800s as an advertising slogan ( Dr. Keck's Sure Cure for Catarrh ; first recorded in 1881), this rhyming phrase was soon extended to other matters.Example Sentences
It was called rock oil and was hawked about the streets as a sure cure for rheumatism.
He advocated no sure cure for all the sorrows of the world, and doubted that such a panacea existed.
Soon after this failure, I heard of a new remedy—a sure cure.
If she went to bed now she would be sure to suffer all night, and in one of the flasks was a sure cure.
Having often had recourse to this method, in preserving pencil and crayon drawings, I will warrant it a sure cure.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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