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Definition

Completed thoroughly and satisfactorily.

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Origins

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

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In Context

  • "All to be done and dusted before the National Honey Show. After this the grand clear up."
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