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noun Informal .
an often unexpected assortment of various things, people, or ideas: The concert was a mixed bag of works from three centuries.
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Origin of mixed bag First recorded in 1935–40
Words nearby mixed bag mix ,
mix-and-match ,
mixdown ,
mixed ,
mixed acid ,
mixed bag ,
mixed blessing ,
mixed bud ,
mixed crystal ,
mixed decimal ,
mixed doubles
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Words related to mixed bag all sorts ,
array ,
assortment ,
choice ,
collection ,
combination ,
combo ,
conglomerate ,
diversity ,
hodgepodge ,
jumble ,
medley ,
mélange ,
miscellany ,
mishmash ,
mixture ,
montage ,
odds and ends ,
patchwork ,
potpourri
How to use mixed bag in a sentence Both could generate a mixed bag of precipitation, and these would be carrying more abundant moisture all the way from the Gulf of Mexico.
Still, elevating rosters from Contenders has proven a mixed bag of results in the past.
Awards season is never not a mixed bag , but the 2021 Golden Globe nominations landed with a particular thud on Wednesday.
Today’s storm brings a mixed bag of precipitation starting this afternoon and continuing tonight.
Contextual links in featured snippets, however, may be more of a mixed bag than first impressions would lead us to believe.
Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.
Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.
Residents of the neighborhoods where cops are needed the most are mixed on the impact of the apparent slowdown.
Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.
Furthermore, mixed race children are the fastest growing population in the country.
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
Broken crocks should be strewn upon the tray, and on to this is heaped peaty soil mixed with sand.
"I'm not proud," replied Davy, provoked at being mixed up with Gobobbles in this way.
I shall only be away for six months; you know I have made up my mind to get rid of the whole bag of tricks.
One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
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British Dictionary definitions for mixed bag
noun
informal something composed of diverse elements, characteristics, people, etc
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Other Idioms and Phrases with mixed bag
A heterogeneous collection of people, items, activities, or the like; an assortment. For example, The school offers a mixed bag of after-school activities—team sports, band practice, a language class . This idiom calls up the image of a sack full of different items. [First half of 1900s]
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