done and dusted

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English

Etymology

1953, UK, with "dusted" alliterative and expressing "finishing touches". Compare home and hosed.

Pronunciation

Adjective

done and dusted (not comparable)

  1. (British, Ireland, idiomatic, of a task) Completed thoroughly and satisfactorily.
    • 1953, Brit. Bee Jrnl. 15 Oct. 669/1:
      All to be done and dusted before the National Honey Show. After this the grand clear up.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “done and dusted”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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