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Thread: A sure bet
- 08-Dec-2003, 13:39 #1
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A sure bet In today's Independent, a British broadsheet newsapaper, Adrian Hamilton wrote the following sentences: But I do know that if I were Tony Blair, I'd take these intimations of mortality as the occasion to get out of the job. Indeed I'm...
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- 08-Dec-2003, 14:27 #2
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Isn't the phrase "a sure thing"? (If you are betting on something you are taking a chance.)
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