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

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He began to give a few lectures at Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, and finally removed, in 1915, bag and baggage to the Seminary to become Professor of Practical Theology.

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

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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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I was doing nicely in the Kaulo Gav and the neighbourhood, when I must needs pack up and come into these parts with bag and baggage, wife and p. 558childer. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry