How was it not “going down to the wire” to begin with? Isn’t the wire the thing that designates the end of the race?I would hope it ends, otherwise I gotta put up with this election year bullshit and these terrible headlines forever.
The idiom represents a race so close that someone has to be watching the wire to be sure which horse crosses first. It’s one step from a “photo finish.”
Ah, I’ve always thought of it from wire to wire, the beginning to the end, also taken from horse and foot racing
Citizens United v. FEC was real healthy for the plutocracy, wasn’t it?
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