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green bag
or green-bag
noun
, British.
- a bag or briefcase made of green cloth, formerly used by lawyers for carrying documents.
- Slang.
- the legal profession.
- a lawyer.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of green bag1
First recorded in 1670–80
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Example Sentences
My mother, Madam, had been delivered sooner than the green bag infallibly——at least by twenty knots.
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Documents full of abominable details were deposited in a “green bag,” which called to mind the words in Job xiv.
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The luggage included a basket of Bordeaux, a surgeon's case, a chest of medicine, and a violin in a green bag.
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Now he had an instinctive horror of a green bag, as he had once the honour of occupying a small corner of one.
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He wore glasses, long hair, carried an umbrella and a green bag; in fact, one might have met him in a vegetarian restaurant.
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