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bag and baggage
bag B0024700 (băg)n.1. a. A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.b. A handbag; a purse.c. A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.d. A pouchlike or sagging organ or part of the body, such as a cow's udder.2. An object that resembles a pouch.3. Nautical The sagging or bulging part of a sail.4. The amount that a bag can hold.5. An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.6. Baseball A base.7. Slang An area of interest or skill: Cooking is not my bag.8. Slang A woman considered ugly or unkempt.v. bagged, bag·ging, bags v.tr.1. To put into a bag: bag groceries.2. To cause to bulge like a pouch.3. To capture or kill as game: bagged six grouse.4. Informal a. To gain; acquire: He bagged a profit from the sale.b. To capture or arrest: was bagged for trespassing.c. To accomplish or achieve: bagged a birdie with a long putt.5. Slang a. To fail to attend purposely; skip: bagged classes for the day and went to the beach.b. To stop doing or considering; abandon: bagged the idea and started from scratch.c. To terminate the employment of.v.intr.1. To pack items in a bag.2. To hang loosely: The pants bag at the knees.3. To swell out; bulge.Phrasal Verb: bag out To quit or abandon an activity.Idioms: bag and baggage1. With all one's belongings.2. To a complete degree; entirely. bag it Slang 1. To cease participating in an activity: Finally in disgust I told my debating opponent to bag it.2. To bring along one's lunch, as in a paper bag: I don't like cafeteria food, so I always bag it. in the bag Assured of a successful outcome; virtually accomplished or won.
[Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi.]
bag′ful n.bag′ger n.bag and baggage
bag and baggageWith all of one's possessions. You need to be out of your dorm room, bag and baggage, by Monday morning.See also: and, bag, baggagebag and baggage and part and parcelwith one's luggage; with all one's possessions. Sally showed up at our door bag and baggage one Sunday morning. All right, if you won't pay the rent, out with you, bag and baggage! Get all your stuff—part and parcel—out of here!See also: and, bag, baggagebag and baggageAll of one's belongings, especially with reference to departing with them; completely, totally. For example, The day he quit his job, John walked out, bag and baggage. Originating in the 1400s, this phrase at first meant an army's property, and to march off bag and baggage meant that the departing army was not leaving anything behind for the enemy's use. By the late 1500s, it had been transferred to other belongings. See also: and, bag, baggagebag and baggage with all your belongings.See also: and, bag, baggageˌbag and ˈbaggage with all your belongings: If you don’t pay the rent, you’ll be thrown out, bag and baggage.See also: and, bag, baggage bag and baggage1. With all one's belongings.2. To a complete degree; entirely.See also: and, bag, baggagebag and baggageAll one’s belongings, usually in the sense of departing with them. It originally was a military phrase that meant all of an army’s property and was so used in the fifteenth century. To march away with bag and baggage meant that the army was leaving but was surrendering nothing to the enemy. The alliterative nature of the term has appealed to many writers, including Shakespeare. In As You Like It Touchstone says, “Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage,” meaning the purse and its contents (money). In time the connotation of honorable departure was dropped and the term simply described clearing out completely. “‘Bag and baggage,’ said she, ‘I’m glad you’re going,’” declared Samuel Richardson’s heroine in Pamela (1741). See also kit and caboodle.See also: and, bag, baggageEncyclopediaSeebagAcronymsSeeB&B |