mixed-bag

mixed bag

noun Informal.
an often unexpected assortment of various things, people, or ideas: The concert was a mixed bag of works from three centuries.

Origin:
1935–40

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mixed bag
 
n
informal something composed of diverse elements, characteristics, people, etc

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Mixed-bag is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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