AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoThe struggle for Senate control goes down to the wire as spending shatters recordsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down12
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkThe struggle for Senate control goes down to the wire as spending shatters recordsapnews.comAmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-square👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 days agoThe 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.”
minus-squareDonjuanme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 days agoAh, I’ve always thought of it from wire to wire, the beginning to the end, also taken from horse and foot racing
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