in the bag

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in the bag

1. (idiomatic) Certain or extremely likely to occur; virtually assured of victory or success.
   • 1862, Julie Rose (translator), Victor Hugo (author), Les Miserables (2009 edition), →ISBN, p. 631:

     "Listen carefully. We've got him, this Croesus! As good as. It's in the bag. It's all arranged."

   • 1954, Charles Percy Snow, The New Men (2001 edition), →ISBN, p. 61:

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

2. (idiomatic) Intoxicated.
   • 2004, Les Visible, The Dark Splendour, →ISBN, p. 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): cinched, guaranteed, inevitable
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk

Translations

certain or extremely likely to occur; assured

• Bulgarian: в къ̀рпа въ̀рзано (v kǎ̀rpa vǎ̀rzano)
• French: dans le sac (fr), dans la poche (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: בכיס
• Russian: в карма́не (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”)

References

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

Anagrams

• be a thing, beathing