Phrases & SayingsSport and recreation
home and hosed
Certain to win or successfully completed.
In a sentence
Once the permit arrived, the project was home and hosed.
Where it came from
From horse racing: a horse safely home after its race and ready to be hosed down. Recorded as an Australian coinage from 1917 and later broadened from racing to mean safely completed or certain to succeed.
- Initial era
- 1900–1949
- Where used
- Australia-wide; also used beyond Australia
- Use today
- Current