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done deal
Idioms and Phrases
An irrevocable agreement, as in Once you've signed the lease, it's a done deal . This slangy expression, first recorded in 1979, may have come from done thing , originating in the late 1600s.Example Sentences
"We thought it was a fait accompli. We assumed that was where the orcas were going, it looked like a done deal."
But despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s initial call last year to more than double the money allocated to the state’s film and TV tax credit program, passage of the two bills is far from a done deal.
The Premier League title race is almost over and relegation appears a done deal too, but there is still everything to play for in the battle for the top five and it is going to be an incredible fight to the finish.
Business minister Sarah Jones said the early closure of the furnaces was "far from a done deal" and talks were planned this week with the firm's Chinese owner, Jingye.
Ramos converted his own score and now it was a 14-point game and, effectively, a done deal.
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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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