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Rag, tag, and bobtail
rag, tag, and bobtail
rag, tag, and bobtailThe lowest social class; the common people. You must be joking—a person of my social status can't eat with the rag, tag, and bobtail at a filthy pub!See also: and, bobtailrag, tag, and bobtail a group of people perceived as disreputable or undesirable. A bobtail is a horse or dog with a docked tail, while rag and tag both express the idea of ‘tattered clothes’: the phrase literally means ‘people in ragged clothes together with their dogs and horses’. The forms tag, rag, and bobtail , ragtag and bobtail , and tagrag and bobtail are also found.See also: and, bobtail |