Slam Dunk - Use As A Phrase

Use As A Phrase

One of many sports idioms, the phrase "slam dunk" is often used outside of basketball to refer colloquially to something that has a certain outcome or guaranteed success (a "sure thing").

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    “Mormon colonization south of this point in early times was characterized as “going over the Rim,” and in colloquial usage the same phrase came to connote violent death.”
    —State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)