leave holding the bag 的定义
- Abandon someone, force someone to bear the responsibility or blame. For example, Her friends said they were too busy to help with cleaning up, and left Lucy holding the bag. This expression is often put as be left holding the bag, as in When they quit the clean-up committee, Lucy was left holding the bag. This idiom grew out of the earlier give one the bag, which dates from about 1600 and alludes to being left with an empty bag while others have taken the valuable contents. Also see leave in the lurch.
leave holding the bag 近义词
等同于 maneuver
leave holding the bag 的近义词 40 个
- exploit
- jockey
- manipulate
- navigate
- operate
- angle
- beguile
- cheat
- con
- conspire
- contrive
- cook
- design
- devise
- doctor
- engineer
- fence
- finagle
- finesse
- intrigue
- machinate
- manage
- move
- play
- plot
- proceed
- rig
- scam
- sham
- shift
- trick
- upstage
- wangle
- work
- come up with
- go around
- play games
- pull strings
- push around
- put one over
leave holding the bag 的反义词 7 个
等同于 abdicate
等同于 bolt
leave holding the bag 的近义词 44 个
- bound
- dart
- dash
- drop out
- dump
- escape
- flee
- jump
- leap
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- skip
- sprint
- take off
- abscond
- ditch
- flight
- fly
- hightail
- hotfoot
- hurtle
- skedaddle
- split
- spring
- start
- startle
- bail out
- cop out
- cut loose
- cut out
- kiss goodbye
- leave flat
- leave high and dry
- leave in the lurch
- make a break for it
- make off
- make tracks
- opt out
- run like scared rabbit
- run out on
- step on it
- take flight
- walk out on
leave holding the bag 的反义词 12 个
等同于 leave in the lurch
leave holding the bag 的近义词 7 个
leave holding the bag 的反义词 2 个
等同于 quitclaim
更多leave holding the bag例句
- “We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- When we had that meeting in the Caribbean, Jeffrey was holding his own and not only was he a pleasant host, he was pleasant guy.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
- They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
- As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.