英语词汇“to/be left hold the bag”的读音、翻译、释义、用法及例句-青年旅行网

be left holding the bag

To have responsibility or guilt for something foisted upon oneself; to take the blame for something. Primarily heard in US. My partner had been cooking the books for years, but I was left holding the bag when the business collapsed.

hold the bag

To have responsibility or guilt for something foisted upon oneself; to take the blame for something. My partner had been cooking the books for years, but I was left holding the bag when the business collapsed.

be left holding the bag

AMERICAN, INFORMAL

If you are left holding the bag, you are made responsible for a problem that nobody else wants to deal with. If a project goes bust, investors are left holding the bag. And then he made another deal, and they were left holding the bag. Note: The usual British expression is be left holding the baby.

hold the bag

Informal

1. To be left with empty hands.

2. To be forced to assume total responsibility when it ought to have been shared.

hold(ing) the bag, to/be left

Abandoned by others, left in the lurch to carry the responsibility or blame. The implication in this expression, used since the eighteenth century, is that one is left holding an empty bag while others have made off with the presumably valuable contents. The phrase has often been used in international relations—for example, by Thomas Jefferson (“She will leave Spain the bag to hold,” Writings, 1793), and on the eve of America’s entrance into World War II, by Clare Boothe (Luce) in Europe in the Spring (1940): “When bigger and better bags are made, America will hold them.”

词汇	to/be left hold the bag
释义	(redirected from to/be left hold the bag) be left holding the bag To have responsibility or guilt for something foisted upon oneself; to take the blame for something. Primarily heard in US. My partner had been cooking the books for years, but I was left holding the bag when the business collapsed. hold the bag To have responsibility or guilt for something foisted upon oneself; to take the blame for something. My partner had been cooking the books for years, but I was left holding the bag when the business collapsed. be left holding the bag AMERICAN, INFORMAL If you are left holding the bag, you are made responsible for a problem that nobody else wants to deal with. If a project goes bust, investors are left holding the bag. And then he made another deal, and they were left holding the bag. Note: The usual British expression is be left holding the baby. hold the bag Informal 1. To be left with empty hands. 2. To be forced to assume total responsibility when it ought to have been shared. hold(ing) the bag, to/be left Abandoned by others, left in the lurch to carry the responsibility or blame. The implication in this expression, used since the eighteenth century, is that one is left holding an empty bag while others have made off with the presumably valuable contents. The phrase has often been used in international relations—for example, by Thomas Jefferson (“She will leave Spain the bag to hold,” Writings, 1793), and on the eve of America’s entrance into World War II, by Clare Boothe (Luce) in Europe in the Spring (1940): “When bigger and better bags are made, America will hold them.”
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