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a three-bagger
a three-bagger (baseball)
bag and baggage
bag lady
bag of tricks
bag some rays
bagel
brown bag it
Cabbagetown
cat's out of the bag
check your bags
get bageled
holding the bag
in the bag
it's in the bag
leave (someone) holding the bag
leave you holding the bag
left holding the bag
let the cat out of the bag
moneybags
nosebag
one man's garbage is another man's art
scum/scumbag
the cat's out of the bag
three-bagger
windbag
air bags
babbage
2. two-faced; backstabber:"She's so babbage; she always disses everyone"
bag
2. derogatory term for an objectionable and unpleasant person
3. meaning that which interests. E.g:"What's your bag ? Mine is house music" [1960s U.S.]
4. the scrotum.
5. (suffix) a suffix that emphasises the essential undesirable nature of a person in perjorative nouns such as 'tossbag', 'shitbag', 'ratbag' etc.
6. to skip; to miss; to cancel; to forgo an event."Did you see Peterson's lecture last Thursday? Naw, I bagged. I pulled an allnighter the night before - I was too tired"
7. see also
bag of bones
bag off
bag rays
2. to go topless:"I was bagging rays yesterday at the beach"
bag up
2. to be caught or arrested by the police
3. to have sexual intercourse with:"Bag up bitches from John Jay" -- Nas (One Love [1994])
bagging
bags
bagsy
bollockbag
brown bag special
bum-bag
cabbage
2. a person in a catatonic state or seemingly brain dead
3. The female genitals
cabbaged
debag
old bag
what's in the bag?
put on the feed bag
Idiom(s): put on the feed bagTheme: EATING
to eat a meal. (Folksy and slang.)
• It's noon—time to put on the feed bag.
• I didn't put on the feed bag until about eight o'clock last night.
mixed bag
Idiom(s): mixed bagTheme: COMBINATION
a varied collection of people or things. (Refers to a bag of game brought home after a day's hunting.)
• The new students in my class are a mixed bag—some bright, some positively stupid.
• The furniture I bought is a mixed bag. Some of it is valuable and the rest is worthless
leave sb holding the bag
Idiom(s): leave sb holding the bagTheme: BLAME
to leave someone to take all the blame; to leave someone appearing guilty. (Informal.)
• They all ran off and left me holding the bag. It wasn't even my fault.
• It was the mayor's fault, but he wasn't left holding the bag.
Bag of nerves
If someone is a bag of nerves, they are very worried or nervous.Carpetbagger
A carpetbagger is an opportunist without any scruples or ethics, or a politican who wants to represent a place they have no connection with.Doggy bag
If you ask for a doggy bag in a restaurant, they will pack the food you haven't eaten for you to take home.be larboard captivation the bag
To accept albatross or answerability for article foisted aloft oneself; to booty the accusation for something. Primarily heard in US. My accomplice had been affable the books for years, but I was larboard captivation the bag back the business collapsed.Learn more: bag, holding, leftbe larboard captivation the bag
AMERICAN, INFORMALIf you are larboard captivation the bag, you are fabricated amenable for a botheration that cipher abroad wants to accord with. If a activity goes bust, investors are larboard captivation the bag. And again he fabricated addition deal, and they were larboard captivation the bag. Note: The accepted British announcement is be larboard captivation the baby. Learn more: bag, holding, lefthold(ing) the bag, to/be left
Abandoned by others, larboard in the blunder to backpack the albatross or blame. The association in this expression, acclimated back the eighteenth century, is that one is larboard captivation an abandoned bag while others accept fabricated off with the apparently admired contents. The byword has generally been acclimated in all-embracing relations—for example, by Thomas Jefferson (“She will leave Spain the bag to hold,” Writings, 1793), and on the eve of America’s access into World War II, by Clare Boothe (Luce) in Europe in the Spring (1940): “When bigger and bigger accoutrements are made, America will authority them.”Learn more: left
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Dog days Dog's dinner Dog-eared Dog-whistle politics Doggy bag Doldrums Dollars for doughnuts Don't bite the hand that feeds Don't catch your chickens before they're hatched Don't cry over spilt milk Don't give up the day job Don't judge a book by the cover be knee-high to a grasshopper be knocked down a notch (or two) be knocked down a peg (or two) be knocked out cold be knocked out of the box be knocked sideways be knocking on heaven's door be knocking on the door be laid to rest be larger than life be laughed out of court be laughing be laughing (one's) head off be laughing all the way to the bank be laughing on the other side of (one's) face be laughing on the other side of your face be laughing out of the other side of (one's) mouth be laughing up (one's) sleeve be laughing up your sleeve be laughing your head off be left (out) in the cold be left at the post be left hanging (in the air/in midair) be left hanging in the air be left holding the baby be left holding the bag be left in the dark (about something) be left in the lurch be left to (one's) own devices be left to (one's) own resources be level pegging be licking (one's) lips be licking your lips be light on be light on (one's) feet be light on (something) be light on something be light on your feet be light years away be light years away from be light-headed be like a bear with a sore head be like a bull in a china shop be like a cat on a hot tin roof be like a cat on hot bricks be like a child in a sweetshop be like a deer caught in the headlights be like a dog with a bone be like a dog with two tails be like a fish out of water be like a kid in a candy store
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