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  • Whats the origin of the idiom to be left holding the bag?
    Origin: Mid-18th Century, British and American English – The original form of the expression was “give someone the bag to hold” (to keep them occupied while you slipped away) The point of view has shifted over the centuries to that of the victim – the one holding the bag –
  • Holding the bag - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
    Abandoned by others, left in the lurch to carry the responsibility or blame The implication in this expression, used since the eighteenth century, is that one is left holding an empty bag while others have made off with the presumably valuable contents
  • Meaning of be left holding the bag in English - Cambridge Dictionary
    BE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG definition: to suddenly have to deal with a difficult situation because others have decided that they do not… Learn more
  • Bagholder - Wikipedia
    In financial slang, a bagholder is a shareholder left holding shares of worthless stocks [1] The bagholder typically bought in near the peak, when people were hyping the asset and the price was high, and held it all the way through steep declines, losing a large amount of money in the process
  • Leave someone holding the bag Idiom Definition - GRAMMARIST
    To leave someone holding the bag means to manipulate a situation so that one person takes all the blame for a negative outcome or all the responsibility The connotation is that there are others who could rightly be blamed and perhaps are even more blame-worthy, but walk away unscathed
  • HOLDING THE BAG Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of HOLD is to have possession or ownership of or have at one's disposal How to use hold in a sentence Synonym Discussion of Hold
  • Definition of be left holding the bag - Collins Online Dictionary
    If you are left holding the bag, you are put in a situation where you are responsible for something, often in an unfair way because other people fail or refuse to take responsibility for it
  • leave someone holding the bag - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    (figuratively) To abandon somebody, leaving him or her holding the responsibility or blame After the accident, he just vanished and left me holding the bag (figuratively) To remove the value from an article or arrangement and leave somebody holding the empty (or valueless) container


















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