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put on the feed bag



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, tie on the feed bag . Eat a meal, as in Come on, it's time to put on the feed bag . This slangy term, alluding to a horse's feed bag that is literally tied on, dates from the early 1900s.

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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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