baked in
adj.— «The key reason for the foreign inflow, says Chilton Thomson, a director of American Express Asset Management in London, is that “a good deal of the profit is already baked in the cake.”» —“American Bulls Are Running In Frankfurt” by Frederic A. Miller, John E. Pluenneke in Bonn, Germany BusinessWeek June 17, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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