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left holding the bag
- To have the blame or responsibility thrust upon you: “When his partner skipped town, Harry was left holding the bag.â€
Example Sentences
Trump escapes any legal responsibility for his criminal acts and his minions and the world at large are left holding the bag.
The fans are going wild, the naysayers are saying nay and the rest of us are left holding the bag.
Now he's gone, his family is safe and we are left holding the bag.
Hugh Son joins to explain the complicated mess left in the wake of a fintech failure, and how users were left holding the bag.
Democrats were left holding the bag when this inflation crisis hit, they paid dearly for it, and there’s not much more to say about it other than that the Biden administration seemed constantly wrong-footed by it and never settled on a strategy to manage the fallout.
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