shoo-in 
noun informal
A person or thing that is certain to succeed, especially someone who is certain to win a competition: he was a shoo-in for re-election...
- Whereas Room #2 was filled with the shoo-ins, this room seemed to have been populated mostly with the long-shots.
- They are shoo-ins for the public service category in any event.
- He had been considered a shoo-in for best new artist.
Origin
1930s: from the earlier use of the term denoting the winner of a rigged horse race.
Rhymes
- Australian cattle dog
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- Australian Council of Social Service
- Australian Council of Trade Unions
- Australian crawl
- Australian encephalitis
- Australian flatworm
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- Australianise
- Australianism
- Australianize
- Australian Labor Party
- Australian language
- Australianness
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- Australian pine
- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
- Australian Rules
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- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
- Australian sheepdog
- Australian Shepherd
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- Australian Workers' Union