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done deal
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
As a senior figure warns, for some Nato members, spending 3.5% of GDP on defence is a already a "done deal" - but the UK is still "hopping around".
The proposals taken up by the committee are by no means a done deal.
“They would not have pushed this back if they thought this was a done deal.”
"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.
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