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gives someone the bag

gives someone the bag is the third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone the bag.

Meaning of give someone the bag

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. (idiomatic, obsolete, transitive) To disappoint (someone).
    • I have felt of the power and terrors of what is yet unseen , he would not thus have lightly given us the bag1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC

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Gives someone the bag is the third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone the bag.

Words near gives someone the bag in the dictionary

  1. gives someone line
  2. gives someone one
  3. gives someone something to think about
  4. gives someone the air
  5. gives someone the arm
  6. gives someone the bag
  7. gives someone the boot
  8. gives someone the brush-off
  9. gives someone the business
  10. gives someone the chair
  11. gives someone the cold shoulder

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