give someone the bag
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
give someone the bag (third-person singular simple present gives someone the bag, present participle giving someone the bag, simple past gave someone the bag, past participle given someone the bag)
- (obsolete, idiomatic, transitive) To disappoint (someone).
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC:
- I have felt of the power and terrors of what is yet unseen , he would not thus have lightly given us the bag
References[edit]
“bag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.