in the bag

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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."

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