baked in
adj.— «Otherwise, he said, all of the growth that has redounded to the Japanese this year will be baked in on a longer term basis while what the domestic industry “needs more than anything else is volume.”» —“Import curbs” in Detroit, Michigan Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) July 1, 1980. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Brian from Lafayette, Indiana, wonders why chicken is abbreviated CHX in the restaurant industry. Using X as a substitute or shortener has a long history. Medieval scribes sometimes drew a line through the final stroke of an abbreviated word. This...
Matt from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was puzzled when colleagues kept saying someone had stood up at a wedding, indicating that they’d been a member of the wedding party. The expression stood up in that sense is an Americanism going back about two...