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• shoo-in — {n.}, {informal} Someone or something that is expected to win; a favorite; sure winner. * /Chris is a shoo in to win a scholarship./ * /Do you think he will win the election? He s a shoo in./ * /This horse is a shoo in. He can t miss winning./… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• shoo-in — {n.}, {informal} Someone or something that is expected to win; a favorite; sure winner. * /Chris is a shoo in to win a scholarship./ * /Do you think he will win the election? He s a shoo in./ * /This horse is a shoo in. He can t miss winning./… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• shoo-in — noun informal Someone or something that is expected to win; a favorite; sure winner. Chris is a shoo in to win a scholarship. Do you think he will win the election? He s a shoo in. This horse is a shoo in. He can t miss winning. Syn.: sure… …   Словарь американских идиом

• shoo-in — [“Jinn] n. an easy winner. □ She’s a shoo in. Nobody can touch her. □ My horse was a shoo in. It won by a mile …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• shoo — (v.) 1620s, to drive away by calling shoo, from the exclamation (late 15c.), instinctive, Cf. Ger. schu, It. scioia. Shoo in easy winner (especially in politics) (1939) was originally a horse that wins a race by pre arrangement (1928; the verb… …   Etymology dictionary

• horse|sho|er — «HRS SHOO uhr, HRSH », noun. a person who makes horseshoes, or puts horseshoes on horses. SYNONYM(S): blacksmith …   Useful english dictionary

• shoo-in — /ˈʃu ɪn/ (say shooh in) noun Colloquial a certainty to win a competition, election, etc. {from earlier US shoo in a fixed horserace, from the phrase shoo a horse in to let a horse win a race easily} …  

• shoo-in — n American a certainty; a candidate or contestant who is certain to win. The term is inspired by the idea of a horse which merely has to be ushered across the fin ishing line. The phrase is a common colloquialism in the USA which was picked up by …   Contemporary slang

• shoo-in —    a favoured successor    Originally, in America, it described a horse chosen to win a race fraudulently, which was shooed into the winning post. Now only figurative use, occasionally mis spelt as shoe in:     The old guard preferred Chernenko,… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• a shoo-in — the person/horse/team that is certain to win, a sure thing    Ralph s a shoo in to win the next election. He ll win easily …   English idioms

• Michael Morpurgo — at a book fair in Paris in March 2008. Born Michael Andrew Bridge 5 October 1943 (1943 10 05) (age 68) St A …   Wikipedia