be on the home stretch
be on the home straight BrE

She says that when Sinclair was on the home stretch of a project he gave up everything - friends, social life, exercise.

The facts that have come to light over the past few months are confirmation for us that we were on the home stretch.

None of this is part of the new Treaty and I believe you are on the home stretch.

They were on the home stretch.

To the Editor: Algeria was on the home stretch of a historic shift to the first multiparty democracy in the Arab world.

"So am I." It was on the home stretch, on the Timah road, that reality ceased to be dull.

I figured they were on the home stretch of their game and that they were going to rub me out, not needing me as a goat any longer.

In November 1999, we here in Parliament, and I assume you too Commissioner, believed that we were on the home stretch and were finally going to be able to implement EURODAC.

He knew he was on the home straight.

If this sounds a bit like charged spheres and electromagnetism, you are on the home straight, because the mathematics is exactly the same.

I hope that negotiations will again get properly under way, and that hopefully we shall soon be on the home straight.

I said that the Treaty of Lisbon was on the home straight, but it is here in particular that it can easily be thrown off course.

If it is on the outside, then each of the seven laps is longer than the standard 400 m, and the starting point is on the home straight.

(DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Treaty of Lisbon is on the home straight and it is now time to look to the future.

It was a miracle she had made it this far, but having survived three hours made her feel less that she was on the home straight than that she was running on fumes.

It is a bad joke to believe the EP could prevent a sub-standard car, which is on the home straight having gone through the whole process, from being approved by withholding its assent, in other words a mere yes or no, as it lacks the necessary leverage to maintain a meaningful position, in other words codecision powers.