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ˈshoo-in N. Amer.
[f. vbl. phr. to shoo in: see shoo v. 4.]
1. In Horse-racing, a predetermined or ‘fixed’ race, or the winner of it. Hence loosely, a horse which is a certain winner.
1928National Turf Digest (Baltimore) Dec. 929/2 A ‘skate’ is a horse having no class whatever, and rarely wins only in case of a ‘fluke’ or ‘shoo in’. 1937Collier's 11 Sept. 11/3 Sharp Practice wins by so far it looks like as if he is a shoo-in. 1950Sun (Baltimore) 1 June 22/4 Some horsemen wondered whether Chris Chenery's Virginia flyer would be such a shoo-in for the Belmont Stakes..after all. 1969R. Lockridge Risky Way to Kill xii. 152 Got two hunters entered in the Ridgewood show... One of them doesn't like wet going... Figuring him to be pretty much of a shoo-in for the.. hunter championship.
2. transf. (esp. Pol.). A certain or easy winner; a certainty, a ‘walk-over’.
1939News (San Francisco) 30 Jan. 15/5 (heading) Bear cagers appear shoo-in for southern division title. 1948Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 30 July 4/2 This type of registration might endanger their balloting in the local elections, where Democratic candidates are usually chosen on a ‘shoo-in’ basis. 1962K. Orvis Damned & Destroyed (1966) xxv. 183 The rest was a shoo-in. The house dick nailed the room number, then waltzed down and checked the register. 1968Economist 20 Jan. 29/1 Governor Rockefeller became the Republicans' leading presidential hopeful for 1964. The press thought him a shoo-in for the nomination. 1976Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 10 Oct. 15/3 From then on, in spite of the fog, it [sc. the sailing] was a shoo-in. 1981Time 13 May 68/1 If they gave a good sport Oscar, she would be a shoo-in. |