Meanings
- Of a document, used to indicate that it was just issued.
The ink isn't dry on the marriage certificate when she dumps that poor, miserable bastard.
2012, Carol Davis Luce, Night Game2 more examples
The ink isn't dry on his latest contract yet and already there is talk about a successor to Conrail President and Chiel Executive Officer L. Stanley Crane.
1987, Traffic World - Volume 211, page 88I'll fight against any kind of development in Iqaluk, Billy, barring the logging leases we've already signed, but if you decide you want to go after subsurface mineral development and you get your way, it's better for all of us to deal with Dan, someone who knows us and knows our ways, than some yahoo with a deploma so new, the ink isn't dry on it yet.
2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, →ISBN, pages 9–10Synonyms: before the ink was dry, before the ink had time to dry, the ink was not even dry
Synonyms & antonyms
phraseOf a document, used to indicate that it was just issued.
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