without fail

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without fail

  1. (idiomatic) Certainly; by all means; as a matter of importance.
    You will report to the police every week without fail.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:8:
      And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149:
      "Tuesday by all means." "Tuesday, then, without fail."
  2. Inevitably.

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