foregone conclusion

noun

an inevitable conclusion or result.
a conclusion, opinion, or decision formed in advance of proper consideration of evidence, arguments, etc.

foregone conclusion

First recorded in 1595–1605

To be sure, Republican rule of the Senate is not a foregone conclusion.

Indeed, to members of the Yes campaign in the final days, victory was a foregone conclusion.

As Egyptians go to the polls, the election of a new strongman is a foregone conclusion.

Usually the Best Picture winner is a foregone conclusion by this point—did anyone really think The Artist or Argo would lose?

Critics were so certain that Bryan Cranston would win that it seemed a foregone conclusion.

He must have seen, long before November 1292, that an adverse decision was a foregone conclusion.

It seems to be a foregone conclusion that I shall never hear a good performance of one of my operas.

Finally, a foregone conclusion against her had stolen into Theodore's mind, and this she could not conquer.

Unless they were captured, it was a foregone conclusion that Trymore and Pringle would try to reach the car.

Howells's "Foregone Conclusion" was running in the Atlantic that year, and they delighted in it.

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