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What is "shoo-in"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shoo-in
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he was far from a shoo-in for president.
▪ But, once again, Clinton was no shoo-in.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shoo-in

"easy winner" (especially in politics), 1939, from earlier sense "horse that wins a race by pre-arrangement" (1928); the verb phrase shoo in in this sense is from 1908; from shoo (v.) + in (adv.).

Wiktionary
shoo-in

n. 1 (context horse racing English) The winner of a fixed race, a fixed race. 2 (context idiomatic English) A candidate or contestant generally agreed upon as the presumptive winner; somebody who is well-liked or widely agreed upon.

WordNet
shoo-in

n. an easy victory [syn: runaway, blowout, romp, laugher, walkaway]

Usage examples of "shoo-in".

Unser Fritz winds up the day betting two thousand more on something called Sharp Practice, and when Sharp Practice wins by so far it looks as if he is a shoo-in, Fritz finds himself with over twelve thousand slugs, and the way the bookmakers in the betting ring are sobbing is really most distressing to hear.

The Sultan will be a shoo-in as soon as he assuages the faithful by performing the hajj.