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a foregone conclusion
a certain conclusion, a predictable result That he'll graduate is a foregone conclusion. He is a good student.
foregone conclusion
(See a foregone conclusion)
foregone conclusion, a
foregone conclusion, a 1) An outcome regarded as inevitable, as in
The victory was a foregone conclusion. 2) A conclusion formed in advance of argument or consideration, as in
The jury was warned to consider all of the evidence and not base their decision on a foregone conclusion. This idiom probably was invented by Shakespeare (
Othello, 3:3) but scholars are not agreed as to his precise meaning. [c. 1600]
foregone conclusion
1. An assured result. After how ailing the aggregation has played so far this season, it's a foregone cessation that they won't accomplish it to the championship.2. A appearance or acceptance that one has afore accepting all pertinent information. Don't appear to any foregone abstracts about the accident, all right? Let me acquaint you the accomplished adventure first.Learn more: conclusion, foregonea ˌforegone conˈclusion
a aftereffect that is assertive to happen: It’s a foregone cessation that Spain will win tonight’s match.Learn more: conclusion, foregoneforegone conclusion, a
A aftereffect that is already accepted and accordingly is taken for granted. The appellation comes from Shakespeare’s Othello (3.3), in which, afterwards audition Iago’s lie about Cassio talking in his beddy-bye of his love activity with Desdemona, Othello says this “dream” is a “foregone conclusion”—that is, it acutely denotes that his wife has been adulterine to him with Cassio (as Iago advised him to accept all along). Some four centuries after the appellation is still around: “But it could be argued that it was a abruptness so abounding Spaniards were able to booty allotment in a vote which was a foregone conclusion” (Economist, Feb. 26, 2005).Learn more: foregone