Shoo-in
If someone is an obvious choice to win something, then they are a shoo-in. Not “shoe-in”. See WorldWideWords for derivation. That is all.
If someone is an obvious choice to win something, then they are a shoo-in. Not “shoe-in”. See WorldWideWords for derivation. That is all.
Not to be confused with a “shoeing”, whereby one’s boot is introduced to a third parties behind.
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‘intensive purposes’, that’s my bugbear.
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Oh, and ‘walla’ for ‘voilà’.
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And how about “all the sudden”? Owwwch.
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