B
Idioms beginning with "B"
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[bag and baggage] {adv.}, {informal}
With all your clothes and other personal belongings, especially movable possessions; completely.
If they don't pay their hotel bill they will be put out bag and baggage.
[bail out] (1) {v.}
1. To secure release from prison until trial by leaving or promising money or property for a while.
When college students got into trouble with the police, the college president would always bail them out.
2. {informal}
To free […]
[bail out] (2) {v.}
To jump from an airplane and drop with a parachute.
When the second engine failed, the pilot told everyone to bail out.
[bail out] (3) {v.}
To dip water from a filling or leaking boat; throw water out of a boat to prevent its sinking.
Both men were kept busy bailing out the rowboat after it began to leak.
[baker's dozen] {n.}, {informal}
Thirteen.
"How many of the jelly doughnuts, Sir? " the salesclerk asked. "Oh, make it a baker's dozen."