give someone the bag

English

Verb

give someone the bag (third-person singular simple present gives someone the bag, present participle giving someone the bag, simple past gave someone the bag, past participle given someone the bag)

1. (obsolete, idiomatic, transitive) To disappoint (someone).
   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, →OCLC:

     I have felt of the power and terrors of what is yet unseen , he would not thus have lightly given us the bag

References

“bag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.