Complete Definition of "leave somebody holding the bag"

English

Verb
leave (somebody) holding the bag

  1. idiom To abandon somebody, leaving the responsibility or blame.

#:''After the accident, he just vanished and left me holding the bag.

See also
leave somebody in the lurch

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