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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 property—signed, sealed, and delivered. I can't begin work on this project until I have the contract signed, sealed, and delivered.
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.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Pierre | | PYER (French) | French, Swedish |
Fulvius | | - | Ancient Roman |
Oyibo | | - | Western African, Urhobo |
Petronius | | - | Ancient Roman |
Habib | | - | Arabic |
Xochitl | | - | Native American, Nahuatl, Spanish (Latin American) |