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paper bag

Noun

Meaning

a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off. Pat Paulsen

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag. Bill Dixon

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to. Frank Luntz

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! Robert McCloskey

Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. "Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” "True,” Annabeth agreed. Rick Riordan

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so. Nia Long

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