make a bag—
1. (Hunting) kill a number of game on a shooting expedition:
- I was quail-shooting and had made a bag of about a dozen birds by the time I had reached the house.
2. (of a pregnant animal) undergo enlargement of the udder:
- Femme is dropping in her tummy now, and starting to make a bag. Rainy is just very round and tight in her tummy, but very little udder development started.
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase make a bags of something—(Irish coll.) do smth. incompetently or inadequately; make a mess of smth.:
- If the new Authority proposes to operate like that in the future, I predict that it is going to make a bags of higher education.
make the bag—(Hunting) contribute most to the total of game killed on a shooting expedition:
- Sir Allan is making the bag. That is the third time he has wiped Sir Joseph’s eye.