Como dizer "Tão certo como dois e dois são quatro" em inglês
- jlmmelo
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As sure as eggs or as sure as eggs are eggs.
Something that you say when you are certain about what is going to happen or what someone will do: He'll be back again next week asking for more money, sure as eggs is eggs.
Something that you say when you are certain about what is going to happen or what someone will do: He'll be back again next week asking for more money, sure as eggs is eggs.
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- Danr
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O ditado correto é: Eggs is eggs ou eggs ARE eggs.
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Abço e obrigado.
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Abço e obrigado.
- Henry Cunha
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The meaning is obvious, but I have to say I've never heard the expression. It's probably more British usage? I don`t know.
- jlmmelo
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Existe uma música do Genesis - As Eggs is Eggs, banda britânica; no romance Pickwick Papers de Charles Dickens, britânico... 
Gramaticalmente, o correto seria “eggs are eggs”, mas o Wiktionary cita: the ungrammatical "is" is commonly used in this set phrase. (A forma comumente usada é a não gramatical “is”).
Gramaticalmente, o correto seria “eggs are eggs”, mas o Wiktionary cita: the ungrammatical "is" is commonly used in this set phrase. (A forma comumente usada é a não gramatical “is”).
- Thomas
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a lead pipe cinch
a sure-thing
Once you learn how to drive a car, learning to drive a truck will be a lead pipe cinch (easy, inevitable, a certainty, a bet you cannot lose)
If he meets her, he will fall in love with her. It's a sure-thing. (easy, inevitable, a certainty, a bet you cannot lose)
I've never heard the "as sure as eggs" in the USA.
a sure-thing
Once you learn how to drive a car, learning to drive a truck will be a lead pipe cinch (easy, inevitable, a certainty, a bet you cannot lose)
If he meets her, he will fall in love with her. It's a sure-thing. (easy, inevitable, a certainty, a bet you cannot lose)
I've never heard the "as sure as eggs" in the USA.
- timphillips
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As sure as eggs are eggs sounds great to me ( a brit )
A dead cert
A sure thing
Tim
A dead cert
A sure thing
Tim
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- Donay Mendonça
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- Zumstein
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É só eu ler o título deste tópico que eu lembro do "Como dois e dois"
Tão certo como dois e dois são cinco.
Two plus two equals five (2 + 2 = 5)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5
Como dois e dois.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VkcRR9eiOw
Tão certo como dois e dois são cinco.
Two plus two equals five (2 + 2 = 5)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5
Como dois e dois.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VkcRR9eiOw