Meaning of bag and baggage | Babel Free

Definitions

All one's possessions.

UK, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.”

“1989, John P. Murphy (annotator and editor), Jesuit Latin Poets of the 17th and 18th Centuries, page 85, They did not wait the two months granted, but made a quick decision and picked up bag and baggage, and after leaving four Fathers to care for the Catholics, left on carts and on foot for Antwerp.”

“For many years, INS regulations required that deportable aliens be issued a "bag-and-baggage" letter notifying them of their obligation to appear for deportation at a time no sooner than seventy-two hours after service of the notice.[…]Sensibly, the INS amended their regulations in 1986 to eliminate the bag-and-baggage letter, instead assuring that the INS would hold the apprehended person for a minimum of seventy-two hours before removal,[…].”

“With bag and baggage, they, along with about six hundred other servicemen of various US Forces, were herded into olive drab military buses and transported to San Francisco, where their ship was waiting, the USNS General Walker.”

CEFR level