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Idioms and Phrases
In a secure or comfortable position, especially because of being certain to succeed. For example, Once I meet the schedule I'll be home free , or I think we have enough support for this measure—we're home free . This expression probably alludes to safely reaching baseball's home plate , meaning one has scored a run. [Mid-1900s]Discover More
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“It is a privilege to be here tonight to open for Lady Gaga,” Obama began, and from there he was more or less home free.
We can live with a few chosen friends and our books in some cottage-home free from care.'
To allow the woman to return home free, would, he affirms "be to reward the worst species of ingratitude."
That the girls who live there are given a home free of charge makes them doubly liable to criticism.
Hitherto she had thought of a happy future for herself, of a home free from troubles and harassing cares.
We take old instruments in exchange, and deliver the new piano in your home free of expense.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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