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sign (one's) life away
To forfeit one's rights or control over some integral aspect of one's life, typically one's financial interests, as through some signed deal or agreement. Because our financial portfolio was so bad, we basically had to sign our lives away to get approved for a mortgage with the bank. If you agree to this plea bargain, the government will have total control over your property, accounts, and future revenue—so think very carefully before you sign your life away.
signed, sealed, and delivered
Fig. formally and officially signed; [for a formal document to be] executed. Here is the deed to the property—signed, sealed, and delivered. I can't begin work on this project until I have the contract signed, sealed, and delivered.
signed and sealed
1. having official approval
We won't get paid until the contract is signed and sealed. Usage notes: usually refers to an agreement or contract
2. completed or made final He'll make a decision next week, but until then the matter isn't signed and sealed.
Etymology: based on a literal meaning of sign and seal (to put your signature and an official mark on a document that shows it is legal)
signed, sealed and delivered
(informal) also signed and sealed (informal) if a document or an agreement is signed, sealed and delivered, it has been officially signed and completed A copy of the will, signed, sealed and delivered, arrived at our house the next morning. There was a signed and sealed statement from the prime minister to confirm the treaty had been accepted.
signed, sealed, and delivered
Completed satisfactorily, as in The house is sold-signed, sealed, and delivered. This idiom refers to a legal deed, which to be valid had to be signed by the seller, sealed with a wax seal, and delivered to the new owner. It began to be used more loosely in the first half of the 1900s.