signed, sealed, and delivered

Idioms  

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.

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signed, sealed, and delivered

Even when it was supposedly "signed, sealed and delivered", it somehow still wasn't signed or sealed.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024

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

From Reuters ● May 31, 2023

Lind would not come to England, and that no argument could prevail on her to change her resolution, and this, too, after the contract was signed, sealed, and delivered.

From Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

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