in the bag

Meaning

(slang) Certain or extremely likely to occur.
3-0 up with 5 minutes to go...we've got the win in the bag.

(slang) Intoxicated.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

inevitable assured canned bosky cocked fap top-heavy bibulous boozy ineluctable guaranteed three sheets to the wind half seas over inked zoned
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Antonyms

needless oscillating preventable hazy avoidable unnecessary
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Examples

I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books. Walter Dean Myers

I have a bag full of words, and when one of us comes up with a good piece of music, I look in the bag to see if anything there will fit. If nothing does, I sit down and try to put down on paper what the music makes me feel; very rarely will a piece of writing inspire a piece of music. Robert Smith (musician)

We won't say four, till we have them in the bag. Antonio Simeone Sografi

To buy the pig in the bag. Swedish Proverb

Problems are in the bag. Corsican Proverb

Don't say "wheat" until it's in the bag and well tied up. Catalan Proverb

Words in the phrase

in the bag

Close letter words and terms

in the backseat in the backwoods in the bad books in the bags in the balance in the ball park