bag and baggage

Idioms  

1. All of one's belongings, especially with reference to departing with them; completely, totally. For example, The day he quit his job, John walked out, bag and baggage. Originating in the 1400s, this phrase at first meant an army's property, and to march off bag and baggage meant that the departing army was not leaving anything behind for the enemy's use. By the late 1500s, it had been transferred to other belongings.

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bag and baggage

I favor chartering a ship and loading the darlings on, bag and baggage.

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Guests no longer arrive bag and baggage via the railroad station, meat for the innkeeping Caesars.

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Gravely ill at Doorn was Germany's ex-Kaiser Wilhelm....Carol of Rumania plumped bag and baggage down in Havana at last, told 60 reporters and cameramen he was "a simple refugee."

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Belora Villa, in Greenwich, Conn. Thereupon the Misses Burgess and Lux packed the Czech girls off to their homes and Geneva College for Women sailed bag and baggage for Boston.

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After I had assured Tzaneen that we had arrived bag and baggage, Lochien introduced the subject of our mission to Swaziland.

From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil

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