hold the bag

1. see leave holding the bag.

Example Sentences

“The doctor? For a child’s tummy ache? Nonsense. I’ll send up Margaret with a hot-water bottle, some castor oil, and a nice big spoon. Hold the bag open, would you, dear, while I snoop around for weevils.”

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Could it be on track to become too big to fail, leaving the U.S. government to hold the bag?

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Increasingly, firms’ access to retirees’ money looks less like a way to help ordinary investors get in on the action, and more like a way to force them to hold the bag as larger, more sophisticated investors look to escape.

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Why would he not take the opportunity, particularly when the investors who have gifted him this asset would be so enthusiastic to hold the bag?

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To prevent injury, hold the bag tight as the mojo or juju is released in order to activate the protection mojo.

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