Bag and baggage

adv, noun

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    With all one's possessions. UK, not-comparable

    "I could go from valley to valley and from hill to hill; I could “bring up” when it was necessary; and when my labours were finished in one place, I could go on, bag and baggage, to another."

Noun
  1. 1
    All one's possessions. UK, uncountable

    "Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of "Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway."

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