signed, sealed, and delivered

1. 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

Don’t leap before you have your next role signed, sealed and delivered.

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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.

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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.

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"Investors do think it's going to pass. But until it's signed, sealed and delivered, there is always the element of what if."

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LANDRUM: This award should be signed, sealed and delivered to Rodrigo.

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