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mixed bag
noun
- an often unexpected assortment of various things, people, or ideas:
The concert was a mixed bag of works from three centuries.
mixed bag
noun
- informal.something composed of diverse elements, characteristics, people, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of mixed bag1
Idioms and Phrases
A heterogeneous collection of people, items, activities, or the like; an assortment. For example, The school offers a mixed bag of after-school activities—team sports, band practice, a language class . This idiom calls up the image of a sack full of different items. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Both could generate a mixed bag of precipitation, and these would be carrying more abundant moisture all the way from the Gulf of Mexico.
Still, elevating rosters from Contenders has proven a mixed bag of results in the past.
Awards season is never not a mixed bag, but the 2021 Golden Globe nominations landed with a particular thud on Wednesday.
Today’s storm brings a mixed bag of precipitation starting this afternoon and continuing tonight.
Contextual links in featured snippets, however, may be more of a mixed bag than first impressions would lead us to believe.
Russianoff says that after 16 years of Straphangers Campaign rankings, the subway remains a “mixed bag.”
Plus, his remake history is a mixed bag, with the solid True Grit and the atrocious Oldboy.
But, as was maybe to be expected, the film itself is a bit of a mixed bag.
Of course, other recent royal pageants and spectacles have been something of a mixed bag, economically speaking.
It's a mixed bag of reviews for the new controversial dark comedy starring two former Disney princesses.
That was when I collected that extraordinary mixed bag of information which I was wondering yesterday whether to believe or not.
Naturally, in a mixed bag such as this, one can't complain if the quality of the contents varies.
The others a mixed bag of whoever was close enough to be pulled in on this crash assignment.
Later in the day I heard the Turk had got a larger mixed bag than I have stated.
But with a mixed bag of men, I had to grab leadership quick or be relegated to nowhere.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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