surefire recipe

It's quicksilver, and as far as I can tell there's no surefire recipe for it.

Here is a surefire recipe for whiplash.

Yes, because history has proven time and again that mixing failure and incompetence together is a surefire recipe for success.

Limitation on employment, property ownership and the right to vote were a surefire recipe for disaster in Northern Ireland.

Obviously, his appointment was a fix but the Homstat-Pybus partnership was seen as a surefire recipe for success.

Matters did not improve in the afternoon when Tony Crosland, a man of immense intellectual curiosity and an adornment of the Oxford Economics Faculty in the immediate post-war period, added his dose of wisdom and hope: 'There was', he said, 'no surefire recipe for economic growth.'

Janet Maslin, reviewing Devil May Care for the International Herald Tribune, remarked that Faulks did not "tinker with the series' surefire recipe for success", which resulted in "a serviceable madeleine for Bond nostalgists and a decent replica of past Bond escapades".