英语词汇left holding the bag的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

left holding the bag. To be left responsible for something, to be the fall guy or scapegoat after the others involved in a crook- ed scheme have protected themselves from prosecution or ab- sconded. The term is an old Americanism dating back to 1760 or earlier, and Thomas Jefferson used it. The British use the phrases left holding the can and left holding the baby. Left hold- ing the bag is recorded in Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787), the first stage comedy written by an American. In the play Jonath- an, the trusty Yankee retainer of the serious-minded American Revolutionary War officer Colonel Manley, is a servant full of homespun shrewdness. After referring to Shay’s Rebellion, a 1786 revolt of Massachusetts farmers against high land taxes, Jonathan says: “General Shay has sneaked off and given us the bag to hold.”

词汇	left holding the bag
词源	left holding the bag. To be left responsible for something, to be the fall guy or scapegoat after the others involved in a crook- ed scheme have protected themselves from prosecution or ab- sconded. The term is an old Americanism dating back to 1760 or earlier, and Thomas Jefferson used it. The British use the phrases left holding the can and left holding the baby. Left hold- ing the bag is recorded in Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787), the first stage comedy written by an American. In the play Jonath- an, the trusty Yankee retainer of the serious-minded American Revolutionary War officer Colonel Manley, is a servant full of homespun shrewdness. After referring to Shay’s Rebellion, a 1786 revolt of Massachusetts farmers against high land taxes, Jonathan says: “General Shay has sneaked off and given us the bag to hold.”
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