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Definition of Mixed bag
1. Noun. A collection containing a variety of sorts of things. "A veritable smorgasbord of religions"
Generic synonyms: Accumulation, Aggregation, Assemblage, Collection
Specialized synonyms: Grab Bag, Witch's Brew, Witches' Brew, Witches' Broth, Range, Selection, Farrago, Gallimaufry, Hodgepodge, Hotchpotch, Melange, Mingle-mangle, Mishmash, Oddments, Odds And Ends, Omnium-gatherum, Ragbag, Alphabet Soup, Sampler
Derivative terms: Mix, Motley, Motley
Definition of Mixed bag
1. Noun. any bag containing a mixture of something ¹
2. Noun. by extension, a group of entities with few characteristics in common; an assortment ¹
3. Noun. (idiomatic) something tending to have both good and bad results or characteristics; something having a mixture of advantages and disadvantages ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mixed Bag
Literary usage of Mixed bag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Years' Reminiscences of India: A Retrospect of Travel, Adventure and by Fitz William Thomas Pollok (1896)
"... bears and deer—Buffaloes and swamp-deer—Four tigers—A mixed bag on Christmas
Day—Camp in the forest— Twenty-one days' sport—Return to the coast. ..."
2. Sport and Travel in India and Central America by A. G. Bagot (1897)
"A mixed bag. I HAD not long arrived at a certain up-country station, celebrated
for its sanctity and its " King Cob " manufacture, when I found myself ..."
3. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches: A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1890)
"^OTHING pleases the keen shooter more than a good mixed bag over rough ground.
... I wish to go in for a mixed bag to-morrow, and want to know what you ..."
4. Raymond Mhlaba's Personal Memoirs: Reminiscing from Rwanda and Uganda by Raymond Mhlaba, Thembeka Mufamadi, Human Sciences Research Council, Robben Island Museum (2001)
"The PE "mixed bag" A pattern of overlapping membership began to emerge during
this period. Political activists such as Gladstone ..."
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