in the bag
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: assured, cinched, guaranteed, on ice, inevitable"
- "3-0 up with 5 minutes to go...we've got the win in the bag."
- ""We mustn't count our eggs before they're hatched, but I think it's in the bag," he said."
- "At the turn of this century it was still widely believed that electromagnetic phenomena (such as electric charge and magnetic attraction) were just an unusually subtle manifestation of purely mechanical phenomena. Some scientists thought that a reduction of electromagnetics to mechanics was more or less in the bag."
- "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."
- ""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.""