Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits.
Donations, most importantly to charity event gift bags, have proved a sure-fire way to hook potential customers who will not only try the product and buy it, but think of it forever after as a present.
The fusion of dramatic music, melodramatic plot, and sumptuous staging in Robert le diable proved a sure-fire formula, as did the partnership with Scribe, which Meyerbeer would go on to repeat in Les Huguenots, Le prophète, and L'Africaine.
(3+) Harvey, the Boy Who Couldn't Fart by Matthew Johnstone Walkerr £9.99) should prove a sure-fire Christmas choice.
Intended for audiences 6 and older, this colorful, kinetic 105-minute show (counting intermission), proves itself a sure-fire giggle-inducer.
Rubber remains a sure fire way to do it.
"Pointing downhill is a sure fire way to lose a rhino," says Toft.
Making predictions is a sure fire path towards getting ridiculed.
A sure fire trigger for me.
That's a sure fire way to make mistakes.
It is a sure fire way of getting another one.
