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Green Bag

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What’s in the green bag? What charge is about to be preferred against me? The allusion is to the “Green Bag Inquiry” (q.v.).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Greek Calends
Greek Church
Greek Commentator
Greek Cross
Greek Fire
Greek Gift (A)
Greek Life
Greek Trust
Greeks
Green
Green Bag
Green Bird (The)
Green Cloth
Green Dogs
Green Dragoons (The)
Green Glasses
Green Goose (A)
Green Gown (A)
Green Hands (a nautical phrase)
Green Horse (The)
Green Howards (The)