bag

bag and baggage with all your belongings.

☞ The most celebrated use of this now rather dated phrase was by the British statesman William Gladstone, who in 1876 wrote that the Turks should get out of the Balkans 'bag and baggage' (i.e. completely).

a bag of bones an emaciated person or animal. Compare with be skin and bone atskin.

a bag (or bundle) of nerves a person who is extremely timid or tense. informal

a bag of spanners used to characterize someone's face or appearance as ugly, morose, hostile, etc. informal

2011Daily Telegraph I thought of my grandmother pointing to a run-down terrace, face like a bag of spanners: 'Bug-ridden,' she'd say.

a bag (or whole bag) of tricks a set of ingenious plans, techniques, or resources. informal

bag some Zs: see catch some Zs atZs

be left holding the bag: see be left holding the baby atholding.

in the bag

1 (of something desirable) as good as secured.

2 drunk. US informal

let the cat out of the bag: seecat.

mixed bag: seemixed.

pack your bag: seepack.

rough as bags: seerough.