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bag and baggage
bag and baggage
With all of one's possessions. You need to be out of your dorm room, bag and baggage, by Monday morning.
bag and baggage
and part and parcelwith one's luggage; with all one's possessions. Sally showed up at our door bag and baggage one Sunday morning. All right, if you won't pay the rent, out with you, bag and baggage! Get all your stuff—part and parcel—out of here!
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.
bag and baggage
All of one's belongings, especially with reference to departing with them; completely, totally. For example, The day he quit his job, John walked out, bag and baggage. Originating in the 1400s, this phrase at first meant an army's property, and to march off bag and baggage meant that the departing army was not leaving anything behind for the enemy's use. By the late 1500s, it had been transferred to other belongings.
bag and baggage
1. With all one's belongings.
2. To a complete degree; entirely.