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
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Citizens United v. FEC was real healthy for the plutocracy, wasn’t it?
