bag and baggage

bag and baggage
bag and baggage & part and parcel
with one's luggage; with all one's possessions. •

Sally showed up at our door bag and baggage one Sunday morning.

All right, if you won't pay the rent, out with you, bag and baggage!

Get all your stuff—part and parcel—out of here!

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{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./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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