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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[without fail] {adv. phr.} Without failing to do it or failing in the doing of it; certainly, surely. * /Be here at 8 o'clock sharp, without fail./ * /Ben promised […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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