in the bag

English

(slang) Certain or extremely likely to occur.
3-0 up with 5 minutes to go...we've got the win in the bag.
- 1954, Charles Percy Snow, The New Men, published 2001, →ISBN, page 61:
  "We mustn't count our eggs before they're hatched, but I think it's in the bag," he said.
(slang) Intoxicated.
- 1984, Stephen King, Gramma:
  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.
- 2004, Les Visible, The Dark Splendour, →ISBN, page 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."

certain or extremely likely to occur

Bulgarian: в къ́рпа въ́рзано (v kǎ́rpa vǎ́rzano)
French: dans le sac (fr), dans la poche (fr)
Hebrew: בכיס
Italian: in tasca
Polish: na bank (pl)
Russian: в карма́не (ru) (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”)

drunk