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In the bag

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Phraseologism: In the bag.

Meaning: It's over, decided, settled, everything is in order, everything ended successfully (simple, often joking).

Origin: There are several versions of the origin of the turnover. According to one of them, the expression goes back to the old custom to solve all sorts of contentious cases by drawing lots: coins, pieces of lead or other small objects were thrown into the hat, one of which was marked. Each of the participants in the draw took one item from the hat, hoping that the case would be decided in his favor. Whoever is lucky, "the case is in the bag", that is, no one can take away from him what he received by the will of fate. According to another version, the turnover is associated with the old method of mail delivery, when the message was delivered by special couriers - messengers. Very important papers, "cases", as they were then called, were sewn under the lining of a cap or hat so as not to attract the attention of robbers. Finally, the third version connects the origin of the expression with the custom of officials who tried cases to take bribes, which were put into a headdress.

Random phraseology:

Put up a cross.

Meaning:

Refuse to do something or expect an event.

Origin:

The caste of officials, bureaucrats, paper-scribblers is as indestructible as the state itself. Soldiers and marshals fight, and officials then imperceptibly, on the sly, appropriate the fruits of their military victories. Papers tend to accumulate like parasites. Famusov from A.S. Griboedov's comedy "Woe from Wit" had the following custom: "signed - so off with your shoulders." And the usual stationery "rats", so as not to drown in a pile of papers, in order to separate the already worked out from those that have yet to be studied, marked the first with a bold cross. And this is without any religious hint or subtext! It just made it easier for them to understand. And when we decide to "tie up" with some hopeless case, we also say that we put an end to it - only in a figurative sense and without any written notes.

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