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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Example Sentences

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

From Time Magazine Archive

Britain's Sir Anthony Eden last week officially moved bag and baggage into the Prime Minister's residence.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for thee, sirrah, get thee gone, bag and baggage, thy tents and thy trickeries, before the night is half an hour older.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness