Slam dunk

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English Idiom: Slam dunk

Yes, of course, this is a basketball term, but even if you are not talking about basketball, you can use this term.


In daily conversation, a slam dunk is something sure or guaranteed to happen.


Imagine that you are a salesperson who has just made your sales pitch to a prospective customer.

After your presentation, you return to your office, and your boss asks you how it went.

You tell him it’s a slam dunk, which means the meeting went very well, and you believe that they will become customers.

Any kind of guarantee is pretty hard to come by in life.

For language students, sometimes it probably feels like they’ll never be able to master the language.

However, if you put in the effort to learn a language, you are going to improve.

You may not improve as fast as you want, but if you put in the effort, some improvement is a slam dunk.

I can’t guarantee that you’ll improve overnight or that you’ll ever become as fluent as a native speaker, but I can guarantee improvement.


This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).

On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 70.

The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.



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