give someone the bag

verb

To disappoint (someone).

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Meanings

verbgive 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)

present singular third person gives someone the bag · participle present giving someone the bag · past gave someone the bag · participle past given someone the bag

  1. idiomaticobsoletetransitiveTo disappoint (someone).

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

    1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC
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