in the home stretch

in the (home) stretch

mod. in the last stage of the process. (From horse racing.) We’re in the homestretch with this project and can’t change it now.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aldona	-	Lithuanian, Polish
Marcellette	-	French
Anaxagoras	-	Ancient Greek
Gopal	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
Venka	VEN-kah	Esperanto
Marcia	MAHR-shə (English), MAHR-see-ə (English), MAHR-thyah (Spanish), MAHR-syah (Latin American Spanish)	English, Spanish, Ancient Roman