bag and baggage

Definitions

1. 1

   All one's possessions.

2. 2

   With all one's possessions.

   • I could go from valley to valley and from hill to hill; I could “bring up” when it was necessary; and when my labours were finished in one place, I could go on, bag and baggage, to another.
   • The summer camp was being dismantled, and the tribe, bag and baggage, was preparing to go off to the fall hunting.
   • In early February the North China Marines arrived, bag and baggage, decked out with full uniforms, overcoats and fur-lined hats.

The neighborhood