sure enough

See also: sure-enough

English

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Adverb

sure enough (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, evaluative) Just as one would expect.

   Rain had been predicted for that day and, sure enough, it was beginning to rain.

   • 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Chaplin wouldn't be dissuaded. He knew that The Great Dictator was worth making, and, sure enough, it was a box office smash

Translations

just as one would expect

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不出所料 (zh) (bùchūsuǒliào), 果然 (zh) (guǒrán)

• Finnish: toden totta, totta tosiaan
• French: comme il se doit (fr)
• Hungarian: tényleg (hu), valóban (hu), csakugyan (hu), is (hu)
• Korean: 역시 (ko) (yeoksi), 아니나 다를까 (anina dareulkka)
• Polish: rzeczywiście (pl), faktycznie (pl)
• Serbo-Croatian: наравно (naravno)