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*in the bag

1. Fig. cinched; achieved. (*Typically: be ~; have something ~.) It's in the bag—as good as done. The election is in the bag unless the voters find out about my past.

2. Fig. Inf. intoxicated. (*Typically: be ~.) Kelly looks like he is in the bag. John is in the bag and mean as hell.

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Let me go my way, and ye shall have all that's in the bag. Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context "Let me put the sovereigns in the bag again," said Maggie; "and you'll come and see us when you've bought your pack, Bob. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context The little remainder of corn that had been in the bag was all devoured by the rats, and I saw nothing in the bag but husks and dust; and being willing to have the bag for some other use (I think it was to put powder in, when I divided it for fear of the lightning, or some such use), I shook the husks of corn out of it on one side of my fortification, under the rock. Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context			in spitting distance in stead in step in step with in stitches in stock in stocking feet in storage in store in style in sum in summary in Sunday best in surgery in tandem in tatters in tears in terms of in that regard in the absence of in the act in the affirmative in the air in the altogether in the back of mind in the bag in the balance in the ballpark in the bargain in the best of health in the black in the blink of an eye in the blood in the boondocks in the bosom of in the buff in the bull pen in the business of in the cards in the care of in the case of in the catbird seat in the chips in the clear in the cold light of day in the Common Era in the context of In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king in the cross hairs in the dark in the dead of night			in the absence of in the absence of In the Absence of Truth in the act in the adjacent apartment in the adjacent house In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in the affirmative in the aggregate in the aggregate in the aggregate in the aggregate in the air in the air in the air in the air in the air in the altogether in the altogether in the area In the article of death in the ascendent in the ascendent in the ascendent in the back of beyond in the back of mind in the background in the bad graces of in the bad graces of in the bad graces of in the bag in the balance in the balance in the balance in the balance in the balance in the balance in the ballpark in the bargain in the bargain in the bargain in the bargain In the Basement Productions in the beginning in the beginning in the beginning In the beginning... In the beginning... In the Best Interests of the Children in the best of health in the betting in the black in the black in the black in the black in the black in the black In the Bleak Midwinter in the blink in a blink in the blink in a blink in the blink in a blink

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