home and hosed

8.9

Sure of success and relieved after finishing a hard task

idiom

Informal

: a salvo

After weeks of hard work, we finally submitted our project and now we're home and hosed.

Examples

We're home and hosed, mate.

Evil Angels (1988)
Once they secured funding for the initiative, they knew they were home and hosed.
With the contract signed, the team felt home and hosed in their mission to complete the project ahead of schedule.

Synonyms

relieved

vshome and hosed

125 1.0

Feeling happy and relaxed because something bad did not happen

means being secure or successful rather than only an emotional feeling

home and dry

vshome and hosed

Informal

1 5.8

Someone has finished something safely and is not likely to fail

adds a sense of assurance or relief after the safe achievement

Antonyms

in trouble

∞ 2.9

In difficulty and likely to face bad results because of a mistake or bad situation

at stake

355 3.5

A situation where something important may be lost or gained

How Secure

secure

318 3.2

home and hosed

Informal

8.9

safe

∞ 1.0

high-risk

54 4.4

Surface Forms

home and hosed positive

Morphology

home + and + hosed

While 'home' can suggest safety or completion, the element 'hosed' (literally 'sprayed with a hose' or variable slang) does not transparently contribute the sense of being assured of success. The phrase 'home and hosed' is an idiomatic construction whose overall meaning ('secure/finished/assured of success') cannot be reliably derived by a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words.

Etymology

Home and hosed One popular story says it comes from scenes in sport or work where, after someone reached home safely from a race or finished a hard job, people would spray them with water so they were literally hosed and done. That's why the phrase now means 'finished' or 'safe'.