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mixed bagmixed bagA diverse mixture or group. The conference was a mixed bag of all kinds of different people. I thought that all of my classes this semester would be interesting, but it's really been a mixed bag so far. See also: bag, mixed Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. mixed baga varied collection of people or things. (Refers originally 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 antique and the rest is quite contemporary. See also: bag, mixed McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. mixed bagA heterogeneous collection of people, items, activities, or the like; an assortment. For example, The school offers a mixed bag of after-school activities-team sports, band practice, a language class . This idiom calls up the image of a sack full of different items. [First half of 1900s] See also: bag, mixed The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. a mixed bag COMMON If something is a mixed bag, it contains things that are of very different types or qualities. The newspapers carry a mixed bag of stories on their front pages. The programmes are a mixed bag as they have to cater for all tastes. Note: The bag referred to here is a hunting bag containing the different kinds of animals and birds that the hunter has shot. See also: bag, mixed Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. a mixed bag a diverse assortment of things or people.See also: bag, mixed Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary a ˌmixed ˈbag/ˈbunch (informal) a group of people or things of different types or of different abilities: The entries to the competition were a real mixed bag — some excellent, some awful. This year’s students are rather a mixed bunch.See also: bag, bunch, mixed Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary mixed bag, aA haphazard collection of objects, people, or categories. This phrase dates from the first half of the 1900s. For example, “Representatives of the press, a mixed bag in age, but not in sex” (A. Behrend, Samurai Affair, 1973), indicates journalists of many different ages but all either male or female. See also: mixed The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also:- a mixed bag
- a mixed bag/bunch
- gut class
- be able to count (someone or something) on one hand
- be able to count (someone or something) on the fingers of one hand
- be able to count somebody/something on one hand
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- dissatisfied with
- dissatisfied with (someone or something)
- a one-off
References in periodicals archive Writer Glenn Cheney analyzes reactions to FAS 123(R), a standard basically a decade in the making, and finds a mixed bag: some companies have eliminated or sharply reduced the use of stock options, while others fret, believing they need to keep options as a key part of their compensation strategy. From the editor The results indicated that audit committee effectiveness has been a mixed bag, with some SOX provisions proving to be bigger hurdles than others. Status check: three years after SOX, effectiveness of audit committees is a mixed bag Overall then, the UK market is a fairly mixed bag. The UK's economy is not doing particularly badly in relation to continental Europe and there are certainly some bright spots to reassure publication paper producers. Mixed signals for UK producers: advertising rates appear to be moving up in the UK, but producers are under pressure from regulators and prices for energy and raw materials His work is, inevitably, a mixed bag, because he treats the world and his mind as jumbled compendiums, filled with little connections and bursts of revelation that his seemingly slight but actually pointed interventions reveal. Peter Gallo: Wendy Cooper Gallery Greenfield is a mixed bag. In many ways it is quite positive for the insurance industry; however, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania missed an opportunity to expand the doctrine of inferred intent beyond its current parameters. A higher policy: a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling protects insurers from covering the illegal deeds of their homeowners policyholders Don't cast too wide a net--a big room with a mixed bag of people is useless as the attendees won't share common interests and financial goals. Become famous for what you do The whole attempt to reconstruct the Sermon by Luke is a mixed bag, with Luke's omission of so much inexplicable (e.g., antithesis). The Case Against Q It's a mixed bag for those who keep track of newspaper circulation figures around the country. Mixed news Since the introduction of welfare reform in 1996, it's been a mixed bag of results for teen parents, according to a report by the Henry J. Teen parents and welfare Focusing on less-studied works by Johannes Nider, Jean Vineti, Pico della Mirandola, Alonso Tostado, Bartolomeo Spina, and others, as well as the Malleus maleficarum, Stephens persuasively argues that the witch figure emerged after 1400 from a mixed bag of ideas about the activities of heretics, necromancers, and exorcists in the context of theological speculation about the possibilities of human contacts with demons. Walter Stephens. Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief The health of Americans is a mixed bag with life expectancy increasing but the diabetes epidemic continuing to worsen, according to the latest statistics from "Health, United States, 2003," a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. Health progress The theme of mixed use surely should have read mixed bag. If you truly have difficulty filling AR with high quality projects you could occasionally include the work of Scots architects. Mixed bag The post event party for the West Midlands Media Awards, organised by the Birmingham Press Club, took place at Digress in Newhall Street and attracted a veritable mixed bag of party-goersUniversity of Birmingham sponsors included, from left, Anna Dingley, Abigail Dixon, Sam Smith, Alexandra Heybourne and Rachel RobsonJayne Wright and Sally Johnson from Lloyds TSB CorporateAbove, from left, Sarah Grant, Michelle Dowse and Jane GrantLeft, Andrew Sparrow, chairman of the Press Club, with Walsall Observer reporters, from left, Craig Winyard, Rachel Harrison, Craig Hughes and Shaling Hussain Post People THE rise of the euro, like everything in economics, is a mixed bag of good and bad news. VOICE OF THE IRISH SUNDAY MIRROR: Price is not always right It has been a mixed bag for the tourism industry this summer as numbers start filtering in through business industries directly linked to the market. Tourism numbers up for 2002. (Sudbury: Special Report) |