sure enough

sure enough

See also: sure-enough

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

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:

     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)