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Leave someone holding the bag

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo abandon somebody, leaving him or her holding the responsibility or blame.
"After the accident, he just vanished and left me holding the bag."
2.VerbTo remove the value from an article or arrangement and leave somebody holding the empty (or valueless) container.

Synonyms

leave someone holding the babyleave someone in the lurchbe left holding the babyleave someone high and drystrandleave behindhang out to drygive someone the bagpass the buckleave someone to their own deviceshand overleave
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