death and taxes

English

Etymology

By extension with sure as death and taxes.

Noun

death and taxes pl (plural only)

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