But according to David Cross, the content editor of Movoto, Bag End is more luxurious than you may have realized: Cross says the home is 4, 500 square feet.

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First, he should give up his ambition to create the powerful French-style executive presidency that he had hoped to bag at the end of this term as prime minister.

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"It's a deep concern for us that workers will get left holding the bag in the end if things don't go well, " says Lerner, who previously headed SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign.

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We'll go upstairs and unpack your week-end bag.

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"I'll take the week-end bag, " said Frankie.

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It also undermines the whole tax system and prays on innocent taxpayers who often end up holding the bag.

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The committee has approved measures that, if adopted, would outlaw airline credit-card charges and end the "one-bag" policy imposed by certain airlines.

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It consists of a sort of traditional garment bag and a rigid tube with zippered pockets at either end.

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But shadow home secretary Chris Grayling liken the bill to a "doggie bag" containing the government's leftovers at the end of a Parliament.

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She added that "when he got to the end of the car he put a black cloth over it and pushed it into a bag".

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But nonetheless, he said, they would end up with "a bin full of plastic bags" after supermarket deliveries, with each bag often only carrying a few goods.

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