NavinR.Johnson
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.With 4% of precincts accounted for, Maroney declared winner. :rocker:Brownfan80 said:He's leading with 57% after 444 votes.
http://www.word-detective.com/100297.html#shoe-in.... you're absolutely right. "Shoo in," as it is properly spelled, was originally a racetrack term, and was (and still is) applied to a horse expected to easily win a race, and, by extension, to any contestant expected to win an easy victory. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of the term in print dates back to 1928, and the original sense of the term was not as innocent as you'd think. A "shoo in" was originally a horse that was expected to win a race, not by virtue of its speed or endurance, but because the race was fixed. The sardonic "subtext" of the original usage, now lost, was that the designated horse would win even if it were so lackadaisical in its performance that it simply wandered somehow up to the finish line and had to be "shooed in" to victory.
lobster said:This is the 3rd consecutive week that Maroney has been nominated for Rookie of the Week.