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

In effect, the Lausanne Settlement turned Europe bag and baggage out of Turkey instead of turning Turkey bag and baggage out of Europe.

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Two important musical organizations last week started bag and baggage on important tours.

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

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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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Here they all bundled out, bag and baggage, children and animals.

From The Dorrance Domain by Wells, Carolyn