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signed, sealed, and delivered
Idioms and Phrases
Completed satisfactorily, as in The house is sold—signed, sealed, and delivered . This idiom refers to a legal deed, which to be valid had to be signed by the seller, sealed with a wax seal, and delivered to the new owner. It began to be used more loosely in the first half of the 1900s.Example Sentences
The plea agreement was all but signed, sealed and delivered when it was presented in a Delaware federal court in July 2023, whereupon it stood to be swiftly consummated 999 times out of 1,000.
But this is untraveled territory for Americans — this finding of criminal behavior signed, sealed and delivered by unanimous jurors against the only man who has been the subject both of a presidential portrait and a mug shot.
"Investors do think it's going to pass. But until it's signed, sealed and delivered, there is always the element of what if."
LANDRUM: This award should be signed, sealed and delivered to Rodrigo.
"We have the contents of the black box, everything completed, signed, sealed and delivered," said Villanueva.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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