# done and dusted

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/done-and-dusted
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

Completed thoroughly and satisfactorily.

## Examples

- The project is finally done and dusted.
- After working all weekend, we finally got the house painted and everything is done and dusted.
- With the final contracts signed and the legal review complete, the complex merger is officially done and dusted.

## Origin

1953, UK, with "dusted" alliterative and expressing "finishing touches". Compare home and hosed.

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