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death and taxes en · NOUN

Etymology

By extension with sure as death and taxes.

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, in similes, informal, plural, plural-only) Something which is totally certain.
    • Nothing is ever solved forever. Like death and taxes, problems are always there to confront us. 2007, William Jackson, The Incredible Death and Revival of William Morgan, page 143: