signed, sealed, and delivered



signed, sealed, and delivered

Fig. formally and officially signed; [for a formal document to be] executed. Here is the deed to the propertysigned, sealed, and delivered. I can't begin work on this project until I have the contract signed, sealed, and delivered.
See also: and, deliver

signed, sealed, and delivered

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.
See also: and, deliver

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Bush[buʃ]
Agrona-Celtic Mythology
Delightdə-LIETEnglish (Rare)
Dilwen-Welsh
Carney['ka:ni]
Eardwulf-Anglo-Saxon