be left holding the bag
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be left holding the bag
To be blamed or made responsible for something illegal or wrong.
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- be-
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- be intimate
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- be laughing up (one's) sleeve
- be laughing up her sleeve
- be laughing up his sleeve
- be laughing up my sleeve
- be laughing up one's sleeve
- be laughing up our sleeve
- be laughing up our sleeves
- be laughing up sleeve
- be laughing up their sleeve
- be laughing up their sleeves
- be laughing up your sleeve
- be laughing your head off
- be lavish with
- be lavish with (something)
- be lavish with it
- be lavish with something
- be lean times
- be lean times ahead
- be left
- be left
- be left
- be left
- be left (out) in the cold
- be left at the post
- be left hanging
- be left hanging (in the air/in midair)
- be left hanging in midair
- be left hanging in the air
- be left hanging in the wind
- be left holding the baby
- be left holding the bag
- be left in a lurch
- be left in charge
- be left in charge (of someone or something)
- be left in charge of
- be left in charge of her
- be left in charge of him
- be left in charge of it
- be left in charge of me
- be left in charge of one
- be left in charge of somebody
- be left in charge of someone
- be left in charge of someone or something
- be left in charge of something
- be left in charge of them
- be left in charge of us
- be left in charge of you
- be left in the cold
- be left in the dark
- be left in the dark (about something)
- be left in the lurch
- be left out
- be left out in the cold
- be left to (one's) own devices
- be left to (one's) own resources
- be left to her own devices
- be left to her own resources
- be left to his own devices
- be left to his own resources
- be left to hold the bag
- be left to my own devices
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