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Homestretch   Listen
noun
homestretch  n.  
1.
The straight segment of a racetrack leading to the finish line.
2.
Hence: (fig.) The last or concluding part of any extended activity that has a definite conclusion; the final phase of any activity; as, the election was neck-and-neck in the homestretch.






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"Homestretch" Quotes from Famous Books



... led by fifty feet, and, running swiftly, maintaining the same lead, he came down the homestretch an easy winner. When directly beneath the group on the hillside, the incredible and unthinkable happened. Standing close to the inside edge of the track was a dapper young man with a light switch cane. He was distinctly ...
— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... all feel, of making practical excuses to ourselves for a foolish action, he pretended that he had been at Craybrooks long enough, and that now, since he had derived all the benefit to be got from the west-side air, it was best to begin his homestretch on the other slope of the hills. His real reason was that he wished to stop at Lower Merritt and experience whatever fortuities might happen to him from doing so. He wished, in other words, to see Phyllis ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells



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