英语词汇in the bag的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

in the bag. It’s usually assumed that this metaphor derives from hunting, where it refers to birds and other small game- already safely in the game bag. Bag has been used as an abbre- viation for game bag since at least the 15th century, but the expression in the bag is first recorded in 1925. William Bancroft Miller, writing in Verbatim (February 1977), offers another ex- planation, attributing the phrase to cockfighting: “Until com- paratively recent years, it was common to transport game chickens to the scene of battle in cloth bags rather than in the comfortable and elaborate carrying cases now in vogue, and the roosters were not removed until the fight was about to be- gin. A cocker, confident of the prowess of his feathered warrior, would say that victory was in the bag for him.” Neither theory is supported by quotations and neither explains the sinister im- plication these words often have, for the expression frequently means “rigged” or “fixed.”

词汇	in the bag
词源	in the bag. It’s usually assumed that this metaphor derives from hunting, where it refers to birds and other small game- already safely in the game bag. Bag has been used as an abbre- viation for game bag since at least the 15th century, but the expression in the bag is first recorded in 1925. William Bancroft Miller, writing in Verbatim (February 1977), offers another ex- planation, attributing the phrase to cockfighting: “Until com- paratively recent years, it was common to transport game chickens to the scene of battle in cloth bags rather than in the comfortable and elaborate carrying cases now in vogue, and the roosters were not removed until the fight was about to be- gin. A cocker, confident of the prowess of his feathered warrior, would say that victory was in the bag for him.” Neither theory is supported by quotations and neither explains the sinister im- plication these words often have, for the expression frequently means “rigged” or “fixed.”
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