Q. Why do they call a rigged interview a "Shoo-in"?
A. Because the interview panel say, "That's you in!"
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Friday, 8 Dec 2017, 21:10
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Edited by Richard Walker, Friday, 8 Dec 2017, 22:29
Q. Why do they call a rigged interview a "Shoo-in"?
A. Because the interview panel say, "That's you in!"
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It helps if you slipper fiver to the interviewers so they'll boot the others out.
Shoeing an anchor is to put a plank across it so that it catches better in soft sand; I guessed a shoe-in was a nautical term. The OED tells me my guess is wrong, a shoo-in is an Americanism with no stated origin. The Shorter Oxford says it comes from "Shoo!" being what we say to see something off and that a shoo-in is a fraudulently pre-arranged winner of a horse race, hence anything easy is a shoo-in.
I think I prefer both your definition and mine.