cert
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++cert /sɜːt $ sɜːrt/ noun be a (dead) cert CERTAINLY/DEFINITELY British English informal to be certain to happen or to succeed 必然发生，确定无疑；必定成功 Put your money on Thorpe to win, he’s a dead cert. 你押索普获胜吧，他准会赢。
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cert• One candidate, the outgoing Taoiseach and the then leader of Fine Gael, was a cert.• Of course Carvill's Hill started off a dead cert, yet he limped home badly beaten.• It could also provide a dead cert for some future Gold Cup.• I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry - it was a dead cert!• No, this was a dead cert.• This combination of cert hit movie and attached hit record proved too much for Hollywood to ignore.• And I figured that it would be more than a racing cert that it was situated in another alleyway.cert.1. SEthe written abbreviation of certificate / certificate 的书面缩写 ，证明书，证书2. the written abbreviation of certified / certified 的书面缩写 ，经过证明的；持有证件的to happen certain to succeed or be Corpus to
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cert /sɜːt $ sɜːrt/
noun
be a (dead) cert British English informal to be certain to happen or to succeed:
Put your money on Thorpe to win, he’s a dead cert.
cert /sɜːt $ sɜːrt/
nounbe a (dead) cert British English informal to be certain to happen or to succeed: