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signed, sealed, and delivered

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 257 words | Copyright

signed, sealed, and delivered formally and officially agreed and in effect. With allusion to the processing of official documents: the parties put their signatures to them, seal them with their official seals, and finally have them proclaimed or delivered.

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