ink isn't dry on

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ink isn't dry on

1. (referring to a document) Used to indicate that (a document) was just issued.
   • 1987, Traffic World - Volume 211, page 88:

     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.

   • 2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, →ISBN, pages 9–10:

     I'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.

   • 2012, Carol Davis Luce, Night Game:

     The ink isn't dry on the marriage certificate when she dumps that poor, miserable bastard.