Rag-bag

Joseph, as the disgusted Stella said, looked like a walking rag-bag. It was impossible to say what his ground color was.

Better crawl into a rag-bag and hide there; or give yourself to some little girl to play with.

True, I had no Avenger in my service now, but I was looked after by an inflammatory old female, assisted by an animated rag-bag whom she called her niece, and to keep a room secret from them would be to invite curiosity and exaggeration.

In two or three days more, I was informed by the authorities of his having led to the discovery of sirloins of beef among the kitchen-stuff, and sheets in the rag-bag. A little while afterwards, he broke out in an entirely new direction, and confessed to a knowledge of burglarious intentions as to our premises, on the part of the pot-boy, who was immediately taken up.

First, a rag-bag of opposition parties combine to prevent Labour leader Shabir Pandor taking control, despite heading the largest party.

A rag-bag coalition of Tories and UKIP, whose seven members are already at war with each other, are set to try and govern.

Ukip's election on a 45-60% turnout and the fact the constituency map barely changed tells us Wales is no longer a homogeneous nation but a rag-bag of disconnected communities, with their own selfish interests, a demographic mosaic of largely ill-informed, poorly educated, economically marginalised backwaters.

It's not as if we went down there with a rag-bag outfit."

And the Don't Walk models bear no resemblance to the rag-bag of bear no resemblance to the rag-bag of pals, cousins and guys from the judo pals, cousins and guys from the judo club who are regularly roped on to club who are regularly roped on to the student catwalk.

ey will be dominated by the usual suspects, no doubt, but the uno(c)cial list compiled by the supporters includes not just some highly credible contenders but a rag-bag of clowns and charlatans (and, no, I'm not stupid enough to name names because you never know who's next in line through the swing-door).