put on the feed bag



put on the feed bag

Also, tie on the feed bag. Eat a meal, as in Come on, it's time to put on the feed bag. This slangy term, alluding to a horse's feed bag that is literally tied on, dates from the early 1900s.
See also: bag, feed, on, put

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Arduinoahr-DWEE-noItalian
İLdar-Tatar
ÉLiane-French
Padgett['pædʒit]
Houssam-Arabic
BarbaraBAHR-bər-ə (English), BAHR-brə (English), BAHR-bah-rah (German), bahr-BAH-rah (Polish)English, Italian, French, German, Polish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian,