shoo-in 
noun informal
A person or thing that is certain to succeed, especially someone who is certain to win a competition: he was a shoo-in for re-election...
- Whereas Room #2 was filled with the shoo-ins, this room seemed to have been populated mostly with the long-shots.
- They are shoo-ins for the public service category in any event.
- He had been considered a shoo-in for best new artist.
Origin
1930s: from the earlier use of the term denoting the winner of a rigged horse race.
Rhymes
- Atlanta
- Atlantan
- Atlantean
- atlantes
- Atlantic
- Atlantic, Battle of the
- Atlantic Charter
- Atlantic City
- Atlantic halibut
- Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
- Atlanticism
- Atlanticist
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantic Provinces
- Atlantic ridley
- Atlantic seal
- Atlantic time
- Atlantis
- at large
- atlas
- atlas moth
- Atlas Mountains
- at last
- atlas vertebra
- atlatl