Brewer's: Assurance

Audacity, brazen self-confidence. “His assurance is quite unbearable.”

To make assurance double sure.
To make security doubly secure.
But yet I'll make assurance double sure, And take a bond of fate.

Shakespeare: Macbeth, iv. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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