be (all) over bar the shouting
UKIf an activity is all over bar the shouting, the result of it is known, but it has not been officially finished or announced, so people can still say that a different result is possible:
With practically all the results declared, the Nationalist Party has 68 percent of the vote, so it's all over bar the shouting.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Finished & over
- bar
- be done and dusted idiom
- can 1
- closed
- done
- down
- dust
- finito
- in the can idiom
- lapsed
- last
- mission
- one, two, etc. down, one, two etc. to go. idiom
- over
- see
- see the last of sth/sb idiom
- through
- up
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