be home and dry

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to have done sth successfully, especially when it was difficult

   -And I thought we were home free. -Yeah.

   I just have to dot the I's and cross the T's, and I am home free.

In the movies · 3

• We'll be home free.Alita: Battle Angel2019
• -And I thought we were home free. -Yeah.Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase2001
• I just have to dot the I's and cross the T's, and I am home free.American Psycho II: All American Girl2002
• I'll see what he has to say so I can go home and get dry.Changeling2008

From the same entry

• at home
• away from home
• a home from home
• home is where the heart is
• home sweet home
• set up home
• when he's, it's, at home
• charity begins at home
• close to home
• eat out of house and home
• a man's home is his castle
• your spiritual home