bag and baggage

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bag and baggage (slightly formal)

with all the things that you own. We were told we'd have to be out of the house, bag and baggage, in a week's time.

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To work therefore she went, and that so earnestly, that everything was ready early in the evening; when, having received her wages, away packed bag and baggage, to the great satisfaction of every one, but of none more than of Sophia; who, having appointed her maid to meet her at a certain place not far from the house, exactly at the dreadful and ghostly hour of twelve, began to prepare for her own departure. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context The summer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was preparing to go off to the fall hunting. White Fang by London, Jack View in context Then, when my big mental guns had overturned all opposition, and were growling almost inaudibly away on the horizon of pure speculation, the routed enemy straggled in upon their rear, massed silently into a solid phalanx, and captured me, bag and baggage. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context More results

References in classic literature

To work therefore she went, and that so earnestly, that everything was ready early in the evening; when, having received her wages, away packed bag and baggage, to the great satisfaction of every one, but of none more than of Sophia; who, having appointed her maid to meet her at a certain place not far from the house, exactly at the dreadful and ghostly hour of twelve, began to prepare for her own departure.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

The summer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was preparing to go off to the fall hunting.

White Fang by London, Jack View in context

Then, when my big mental guns had overturned all opposition, and were growling almost inaudibly away on the horizon of pure speculation, the routed enemy straggled in upon their rear, massed silently into a solid phalanx, and captured me, bag and baggage.

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

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