What is your bag saying?

What is your bag saying?

If someone speaks in riddles, it is normal to ask what he means. In the expression “What’s your bag?” the meaning is likely “What’s your ‘thing’?” or “What things do you really like?” Though there are likely contexts where it could have a different meaning. That’s not my bag, baby!

Is the term my bad or my bag?

My Bad was originally My Bag. It was common as far back as the 1940s and into 80s. The origin of this phrase actually comes from the card game Spades. The player that predicted wrong would say to his partner my bag meaning my fault.

How much is a bag slang?

one thousand pounds
bag/bag of sand = grand = one thousand pounds (£1,000), seemingly recent cockney rhyming slang, in use from around the mid-1990s in Greater London; perhaps more widely too.

What does not my bag mean?

[informal] said to mean that someone is not very interested in something or not very good at it. `Being an umpire is not my bag,’ Mr. Anders says.

Where did the saying my bag come from?

Using “my bag” as a way of taking responsibility began in the 80s. Urban Dictionary indicates it was in Michigan as you guessed.

What does get your bag mean?

slang Something one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.

Where did in my bag come from?

The origin of the phrase ‘in the bag’ comes from early 20th century America, when the New York Giants baseball team would carry a ball bag off the field when the team was in the lead, superstitiously thinking that the game was ‘in the bag’ and couldn’t be lost.

Where did the expression my bag come from?

Meaning “person’s area of interest or expertise” is 1964, from Black English slang, from jazz sense of “category,” probably via notion of putting something in a bag.

What does in my bag mean sad?

adjective. depressed, unhappy. The term was used in Synanon, a drug rehab community in California. Also in (one’s) bag.

What does it mean to be in her bag?

Assured of success, virtually accomplished or won. For example, The coach thought the trophy was in the bag, or Our new contract is in the bag. The precise allusion in this idiom is unknown.

  • October 31, 2022