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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 More results

? References in classic literature

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

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