mystery bag
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[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]mystery bag (plural mystery bags)
- A bag whose contents are unknown.
- Synonym: (informal) blind bag
- 2010, Barbara Isaacs, Sandy Green (series editor), Bringing the Montessori Approach to Your Early Years Practice, Second edition, page 43,
- An activity in this area, which focuses on the tactile aspects, without using visual discrimination, is the mystery bag. This bag contains sets of matching objects; the child is expected to pair them by feel.
- 2010, Reba D, Facing Forward - a Life Reclaimed, page 22:
- I drove home with the mystery bag on the seat beside me. I was going to do as he asked and wait until I got home to open it.
- A bagged package, randomly picked, which contains surprises (e.g., mystery prizes).
- Synonym: grab bag
- A bag from which a gift may be withdrawn (usually unseen until after chosen).
- Synonym: grab bag
- Hypernyms: lucky dip, lucky draw
- Coordinate term: grab box
- A nonspecific mixed lot of a product at the supplier's choice.
Translations
[edit]surprise package
non-specific mixed lot
Etymology 2
[edit]From 19th c. British rhyming slang for snag (“sausage”), influenced by sense “bag whose contents are unknown”. [1]
Noun
[edit]mystery bag (plural mystery bags)
- (now Australia, slang) A sausage.
- 2010, Kathleen M. McGinley, Out of the Daydream: Based on the Autobiography of Barry McGinley Jones, page 20:
- Bully beef and spuds, tripe, fish′n chips, Anzac bikkies, damper with cocky′s joy (golden syrup), snags (or mystery bags) and hot custard and jelly for sweets.
- (Australia, slang) A pie.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “mystery bags”, entry in 2009, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang.