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Meaning of "home and dry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOME AND DRY

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WHAT DOES HOME AND DRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of home and dry in the English dictionary

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOME AND DRY

home address
home aid
home and hosed
home assembly
home automation
home baking
home banking
home base
home brand
home brew
home care
home comforts
home computer
home cooking
Home Counties
home country
home delivery
home economics
home economist
home entertainment system

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOME AND DRY

air-dry
animal husbandry
bleed someone or something dry
blow-dry
bone dry
cut and blow-dry
dry
foundry
Hendry
heraldry
high and dry
husbandry
iron foundry
laundry
medium-dry
misandry
sundry
the dry
tumble-dry
wizardry

Synonyms and antonyms of home and dry in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «home and dry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOME AND DRY

Find out the translation of home and dry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of home and dry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «home and dry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

置干燥
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hogar y seco
570 millions of speakers

English

home and dry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घर और सूखी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المنزل والجافة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дома и сухой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lar e seca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাড়িতে এবং শুষ্ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maison et sec
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rumah dan kering
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Haus und trocken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

家庭とドライ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가정 및 건조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngarep lan garing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhà và khô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வீட்டில் மற்றும் உலர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घर आणि कोरडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ev ve kuru
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

casa e asciutto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

domu i suche
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дому та сухої
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acasă și uscat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σπίτι και ξηρό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huis en droë
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hem och torr
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hjemme og tørr
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of home and dry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOME AND DRY»

The term «home and dry» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.889 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOME AND DRY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about home and dry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOME AND DRY»

Discover the use of home and dry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to home and dry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Home & Dry in Normandy: A Memoir Of Eternal Optimism In ...
... things considered, look forward to a speedy and relatively trouble-free completion to Operation Flea. Once again, however, we were to find that arriving home and dry in a French property is not always the most straightforward of operations.
George East, 2010
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Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-linguistic Model of ...
Ambiguation is also triggered by the following structural variant of be home and dry (having achieved success or a victory). (43) In the dying minutes Bradford had Lee Sinot send off for arguing, but by then Swindon were home and well almost ...
Andreas Langlotz, 2006
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Lüdeling, Anke; Kytö, Merja: Corpus Linguistics
George Bush is already home and dry, according to NBC, in a swathe of mainly rural states from Idaho in the northern Rockies to Florida in the South and needs only another ten electoral votes to win. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.
Anke Lüdeling, Merja Kytö, 2009
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Translation in Theatre and Performance
... “home and dry”, and making for slapstick comedy in the following equivocation on “depth”, “death”, “head”, “high”, and “hie”, are streamlined in the Italian translation, which plays on the idiom “salvare capra e cavoli” (meaning “to have it both ...
Silvia Bigliazzi, Paola Ambrosi, Peter Kofler, 2013
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An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions: Second Edition
Home and dry Successfully completed.* Home and hosed Means the same as home and dry. Home free Means the same as homeand dry. Home from home A place that is as comfortable or desirable as one 's true home.* Home, James The  ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton, 2006
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
P055. rhyming, or a pun on home and dried, the more common C.20 Aus. version ; UK prefers home and dry. An Aus. elab., as in, e.g., Vance Palmer, The Passage , 1930, is home and dried on the pig '5 back—but this is a blend of two phrases; ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
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Theatre Translation in Performance
... “home and dry”, and making for slapstick comedy in the following equivocation on “depth”, “death”, “head”, “high”, and “hie”, are streamlined in the Italian translation, which plays on the idiom “salvare capra e cavoli” (meaning “to have it both ...
Silvia Bigliazzi, Paola Ambrosi, Peter Kofler, 2013
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Pel and the Staghound
She laughed and Darcy knew he was home and dry. Darcy always knew when he was home and dry. Unlike Pel, who felt he was never home and dry, Darcy could gauge women to the last degree. 'Look,' he said. 'I'm doing nothing tonight.
Mark Hebden, 2001
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The Ladies' museum. New and improved ser
SONG. " Oh ! welcome home — Oh ! welcome home ; Wanderer, wanderer, welcome home : And dry that tear, For joy dwells here, And only awaits thy woes to cheer. In boyhood's hour, In boyhood's hour, Fortune might seem on thee to lower, ...
‎1832
10
Wovoka and the Ghost Dance
And then she'd take it home and dry iL For winter. She would even dry fish. She worked for Mrs. Dick [?]. She was a Strosnyder, Mrs. Dick was; she worked for her . And Mr. Dick used to bring her liver. And the head. And my mother would ...
Don Lynch, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOME AND DRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term home and dry is used in the context of the following news items.
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The trouble with boys - The Express Tribune
Home and dry. The previous week had seen something of a storm in the Twitterverse because said retail wonderland had chosen to limit entry ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Greek Bailout: Europe Strikes Deal After Marathon Talks
The country isn't home and dry yet. Tsipras has to push a first package of reforms — including tax changes and pension reforms — through ... «KTLA, Jul 15»
3
Coast finalists found: Toka v Hicks Bay
As the pressure intensified, Palmer kicked another penalty to make it 19-17 and it looked as though Hikurangi were home and dry. But on the ... «Gisborne Herald, Jul 15»
4
The Open 2015: How not to play St Andrews - Telegraph
... is short at 355 yards (376 yards for the pros), there are no bunkers and, once the Swilcan Burn has been navigated, you are home and dry. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Seven Wickets! Country Thrash Canada in Twenty20 Opener
In reply Kenya was home and dry, 146 with seven wickets and nine balls in hand. Karim and Morris Ouma 34 (off 26 balls with three boundaries ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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St Andrews may have cost him $200m... but Doug Sanders still loves …
He appeared to be home and dry in the final round when he made a remarkable recovery from a greenside bunker at the notorious 17th, the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Sadler storms to Halton Gill victory
In the steady drizzle that arrived late afternoon in Littondale, the West Witton joiner and Beta UK rider was home and dry on a mere three marks after riding 40 ... «Darlington and Stockton Times, Jul 15»
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Bucs aim to rekindle cup love affair
But it is vital to win our home games and try to sneak in points away from home, like we did against Leopards, and we'll be home and dry.”. «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
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Tinkler: Nine points should take Orlando Pirates to the semi-finals
... home games and try to sneak in points away from home like we did against Leopards, and we'll be home and dry,” Tinkler told the Daily Sun. «Goal.com, Jul 15»
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Andy Murray raises the roof against Pospisil
When the third set was claimed confidently he was home and dry and into a sixth Wimbledon semi-final. Of course he won't be content with only ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»

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