feed bag

American  

Or feedbag

noun

1. Also called nose bag.  a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.

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idioms

1. put on the feed bag, to have a meal; eat.

   When his friends put on the feed bag, they finish everything in sight.

Etymology

Origin of feed bag

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

They were asked in succession whether they had ever added anything to a feed bag.

From BBC

Referring to the chart, he said hypoglycaemia was "persistent" right through the day until the end of the feed bag, at 18.55.

From BBC

Prof Hindmarsh said this would "fit nicely with the time course of events" and was consistent with the measurements made after the feed bag was stopped.

From BBC

Jurors have heard how Child F's heart rate surged and his blood sugars dropped dangerously low after a feed bag was started shortly after midnight on 4 August.

From BBC

Arden Cone patterns barn dust in a diamond-shaped grid on a paper feed bag; Nicole Salimbene weaves a tapestry of rolled, heavily black pages from Artforum magazine; and Nilou Kazemzadeh repeatedly spells out the word “expendable” in individual letters sewn from strips of recycled newspapers.

From Washington Post