in the bag

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in the bag

1. (slang) Certain or extremely likely to occur.

   3-0 up with 5 minutes to go...we've got the win in the bag.

   • 1954, Charles Percy Snow, The New Men, published 2001, →ISBN, page 61:

     "We mustn't count our eggs before they're hatched, but I think it's in the bag," he said.

2. (slang) Intoxicated.
   • 1984, Stephen King, Gramma:

     His wife and his three girls had gone over to Gates Falls to do some last-minute Christmas shopping, and Uncle George was pretty much in the bag, just like the Drunk Man Who Had to Go to Jail.

   • 2004, Les Visible, The Dark Splendour, →ISBN, page 97:

     "It's like the way it is for an alcoholic when he can't get a drink.... He bumps into more things now than he did when he was in the bag."

Synonyms

• (certain to occur): assured, cinched, guaranteed, inevitable
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk

Translations

certain or extremely likely to occur

Bulgarian: в къ́рпа въ́рзано (v kǎ́rpa vǎ́rzano) French: dans le sac (fr), dans la poche (fr) Hebrew: בכיס Italian: in tasca Polish: na bank (pl) Russian: в карма́не (ru) (v karmáne, literally “in the pocket”), де́ло в шля́пе (ru) (délo v šljápe, literally “the matter is in the hat”), де́ло ве́рное (délo vérnoje, literally “certain matter”)

drunk

Polish: na bani (pl)

References

• “in the bag”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• be a thing, beathing