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Meaning of give someone the bag | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To disappoint (someone).

idiomatic, obsolete, transitive

Examples

“I have felt of the power and terrors of what is yet unseen , he would not thus have lightly given us the bag”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

give someone the boot give someone the brush-off give someone the business give someone the chair give someone the cold shoulder give someone the creeps