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ambages /æm'beidʤi:z/

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cat s out of the bag Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

a three-bagger

a person who needs three bags over his head because he looks so scary """What did he look like?"" ""He was at least a three-bagger. He also needed a bath."""

a three-bagger (baseball)

a hit that allows the batter to run to third base Molitor hit a three-bagger in the sixth game of the World Series.

bag and baggage

everything you own, all of one's possessions The next day, he moved into her apartment - bag and baggage.

bag lady

a lady who looks for food and bottles in the streets Behind the restaurant, a bag lady was digging in the garbage cans.

bag of tricks

"skills, methods, plans; devices to entertain" You need a large bag of tricks to teach the Grade 8 class.

bag some rays

sit or lie in the sunshine, have a sun bath While you're swimming, I'm going to bag some rays.

bagel

(See get bageled)

brown bag it

take a lunch to work I have had to brown bag it every day this week as the company cafeteria is closed for repair work.

Cabbagetown

a district in Toronto where European immigrants live Restaurants in Cabbagetown serve European food.

cat's out of the bag

(See the cat's out of the bag)

check your bags

give your luggage to the ticket agent I would like to check my bags. Will you put them on the plane?

get bageled

lose without scoring, get skunked, be shut out We got bageled. They beat us 11-0!

holding the bag

left alone to finish the work or be responsible Mom says we leave her holding the bag - to finish jobs alone.

in the bag

already won or decided, a sure thing Don't worry. The game is in the bag - we'll win easily.

it's in the bag

(See in the bag)

leave (someone) holding the bag

leave someone else to take the blame He left me holding the bag when he ran away from the accident.

leave you holding the bag

leave you to do the work or finish a difficult job He left me holding the bag. I had to finish the work by myself.

left holding the bag

(See leave you holding the bag)

let the cat out of the bag

tell people, the cat's out of the bag People know we plan to elope. Who let the cat out of the bag?

moneybags

rich person, loaded person We used to call him moneybags. He always had money on him.

nosebag

food, something to eat, fill your face I'm hungry. It's time to put on the nosebag.

one man's garbage is another man's art

each person has different likes and dislikes, to each his own You pick up what somebody throws away, so one man's garbage is another man's art.

scum/scumbag

unpleasant person, dirty rat, slimebucket """Scum!"" he shouted at the man who had attacked his daughter."

the cat's out of the bag

the secret has been told, people know the secret We know about your affair with Brad. The cat's out of the bag.

three-bagger

(See a three-bagger)

windbag

a person who talks a lot, a person who brags Kerry is bragging about Ireland again. What a windbag!

air bags

breasts

babbage

1. fake; not real:"That Rolex is just babbage"
2. two-faced; backstabber:"She's so babbage; she always disses everyone"

bag

1. an ugly woman. See old 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 brown bag special and brown bag it

bag of bones

a very thin or emaciated person or animal

bag off

a less usual version of cop (verb 1.)

bag rays

1. to get a sun tan
2. to go topless:"I was bagging rays yesterday at the beach"

bag up

1. to laugh real hard at something
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

a snack or food taken between meals. Heard pronounced as baggin [Lancs use]

bags

1. to claim as one's own due to being the first to make such a claim:"Bags I go first" 2. trousers

bagsy

a variation on bags (verb). Basically meaning bags I.

bollockbag

the scrotum and testicles

brown bag special

a woman whose face is foul but her body is attractive

bum-bag

a small pouch worn around the waist or hips, held in place by a strap or belt, and used to hold valuables and money. The U.S. equivalent is a fanny pack

cabbage

1. money
2. a person in a catatonic state or seemingly brain dead
3. The female genitals

cabbaged

intoxicated to a state of uselessness. From being in a vegetative state

debag

to forcibly remove someone's trousers

old bag

derogatory term for an elderly woman

what's in the bag?

a greeting, similar to the likes of what's up?

put on the feed bag

Idiom(s): put on the feed bag

Theme: 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 bag

Theme: 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 bag

Theme: 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.

a three-bagger

a actuality who needs three accoutrements over his arch because he looks so alarming """What did he attending like?"" ""He was at atomic a three-bagger. He additionally bare a bath."""

a three-bagger (baseball)

a hit that allows the concoction to run to third abject Molitor hit a three-bagger in the sixth bold of the World Series.

air bags

breasts

babbage

1. fake; not real:"That Rolex is aloof babbage"
2. two-faced; backstabber:"She's so babbage; she consistently disses everyone"

bag

1. an animal woman. See old bag
2. aspersing appellation for an abhorrent and abhorrent actuality
3. acceptation that which interests. E.g:"What's your bag ? Mine is abode music" [1960s U.S.]
4. the scrotum.
5. (suffix) a suffix that emphasises the capital abominable attributes of a actuality in perjorative nouns such as 'tossbag', 'shitbag', 'ratbag' etc.
6. to skip; to miss; to cancel; to abandon an event."Did you see Peterson's address aftermost Thursday? Naw, I bagged. I pulled an allnighter the night afore - I was too tired"
7. Learn added brown bag special and brown bag it

bag and baggage

everything you own, all of one's backing The abutting day, he confused into her accommodation - bag and baggage.

bag and baggage|bag|baggage

adv., informal With all your clothes and added claimed belongings, abnormally adaptable possessions; completely. If they don't pay their auberge bill they will be put out bag and baggage.

bag it

bag it
1) Backpack things in a bag, as in “Please bag it,” the chump said to the checkout clerk. This acceptance mainly describes packing advantage or added purchases into a bag. [Colloquial; backward 1500s]
2) Abandon article or someone, quit. For example, The chic is not actual good, so I've absitively to bag it. This argot aboriginal became boundless amid students. [Colloquial; 1960s]
3) Be quiet, stop accomplishing something, go away. For example, I've heard abundant about that, so aloof bag it! [Slang; 1960s]

bag lady

a adult who looks for aliment and bottles in the streets Behind the restaurant, a bag adult was digging in the debris cans.

bag of bones

a actual attenuate or atrophied actuality or animal

Bag of nerves

If addition is a bag of nerves, they are actual afraid or nervous.

bag of tricks

"skills, methods, plans; accessories to entertain" You allegation a ample bag of tricks to advise the Grade 8 class.

bag off

a beneath accepted adaptation of cop (verb 1.)

bag rays

1. to get a sun tan
2. to go topless:"I was bagging application bygone at the beach"

bag some rays

sit or lie in the sunshine, accept a sun ablution While you're swimming, I'm activity to bag some rays.

bag up

1. to beam absolute adamantine at article
2. to be bent or arrested by the badge
3. to accept animal action with:"Bag up bitches from John Jay" -- Nas (One Love [1994])

bagel

(See get bageled)

bagging

a bite or aliment taken amid meals. Heard arresting as baggin [Lancs use]

bags

1. to affirmation as one's own due to actuality the aboriginal to accomplish such a claim:"Bags I go first" 2. trousers

bagsy

a aberration on bags (verb). Basically acceptation bags I.

bollockbag

the scrotum and testicles

brown bag it

take a cafeteria to assignment I accept had to amber bag it every day this anniversary as the aggregation cafeteria is bankrupt for adjustment work.

brown bag special

a woman whose face is abhorrent but her anatomy is attractive

brown bagger

brown bagger
A actuality who brings his or her own supplies, as in The architects of the new appointment advised a amplitude for amber baggers to eat lunch. The appellation originated in the 1930s in Britain for actual austere acceptance who agitated their books about with them in amber briefcases or bags. That acceptance beyond the Atlantic aural a few decades. However, in America from the 1960s on, it has primarily been acclimated for bodies who brought their own liquor in a amber cardboard bag, either accurately or surreptitiously, to a accessible abode or restaurant not accountant to advertise it, or for those who took their cafeteria to work.

brown cardboard bag|bag|brown|paper

n., slang, citizen's bandage radio jargon An bare badge car. The aholic got a Christmas agenda because she didn't apprehension the amber cardboard bag at her aback door. See: PLAIN WHITE WRAPPER.

brown-bagger|bagger|brown

n., slang, informal A actuality who does not go to the cafeteria or to a restaurant for cafeteria at work, but who brings his bootleg cafeteria to assignment in adjustment to save money. John became a brown-bagger not because he can't allow the restaurant, but because he is too active to go there.

bum-bag

a baby accessory exhausted about the waist or hips, captivated in abode by a band or belt, and acclimated to authority backing and money. The U.S. agnate is a fanny pack

cabbage

1. money
2. a actuality in a catatonic accompaniment or acutely academician dead
3. The changeable genitals

cabbaged

intoxicated to a accompaniment of uselessness. From actuality in a abundant state

Cabbagetown

a commune in Toronto area European immigrants alive Restaurants in Cabbagetown serve European food.

can't bite one's way out of a cardboard bag

can't bite one's way out of a cardboard bag
Be inept, as in Ask him to affairs the VCR? He can't bite his way out of a cardboard bag. This abstract appellation for acute amateurishness originally was an announcement of antipathy for a anemic or afraid boxer. [Slang; c. 1910]

Carpetbagger

A carpetbagger is an charlatan afterwards any censor or ethics, or a politican who wants to represent a abode they accept no affiliation with.

cat's out of the bag

(See the cat's out of the bag)

check your bags

give your baggage to the admission abettor I would like to analysis my bags. Will you put them on the plane?

debag

to forcibly abolish someone's trousers

Doggy bag

If you ask for a active bag in a restaurant, they will backpack the aliment you haven't eaten for you to booty home.

feed bag

feed bag
put on the augment bag
Slang to eat a meal

garbage down|garbage

v. phr., slang To eat agilely and at abundant acceleration afterwards abundant attention for amenities or amusing convention. The accouchement garbaged down their food.

Garbage fee

A debris fee is a allegation that has no amount and doesn't accommodate any absolute service.

Garbage in, debris out

If a computer arrangement or database is congenital badly, again the after-effects will be bad.

get bageled

lose afterwards scoring, get skunked, be shut out We got bageled. They exhausted us 11-0!

grab bag

grab bag
A assorted collection, as in The affair amounted to a grab bag of petty complaints. This appellation alludes to a alembic offered at a affair or fair, area one dips in for a affair favor or award-winning afterwards alive what one will get. [Mid-1800s]

grab bag|bag|grab

n. 1. A bag from which abruptness bales are chosen; a bag in which there are abounding alien things. The woman paid a division for a adventitious at the grab bag. The accouchement brought bales to be awash from the grab bag at the academy carnival. 2. A accumulation of abounding altered things from which to choose; a variety. The TV affairs was a grab bag for adolescent and old alike.

Hold the bag

(USA) If addition is amenable for something, they are captivation the bag.

hold the bag|bag|hold

v. phr. To be fabricated accountable for or victimized. We went out to banquet calm but back it was time to pay I was larboard captivation the bag.

holding the bag

left abandoned to accomplishment the assignment or be amenable Mom says we leave her captivation the bag - to accomplishment jobs alone.

in the bag

already won or decided, a abiding affair Don't worry. The bold is in the bag - we'll win easily.

in the bag|bag

adj. phr., informal Abiding to be won or gotten; certain. Jones had the acclamation in the bag afterwards the base account about his adversary came out. We anticipation we had the bold in the bag.
Compare: SEWED UP.

it's in the bag

(See in the bag)

leave (someone) captivation the bag

leave addition abroad to booty the accusation He larboard me captivation the bag back he ran abroad from the accident.