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mixed bag

noun

, Informal.
  1. an often unexpected assortment of various things, people, or ideas:

    The concert was a mixed bag of works from three centuries.



mixed bag

noun

  1. informal.
    something composed of diverse elements, characteristics, people, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mixed bag1

First recorded in 1935–40

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Idioms and Phrases

A heterogeneous collection of people, items, activities, or the like; an assortment. For example, The school offers a mixed bag of after-school activities—team sports, band practice, a language class . This idiom calls up the image of a sack full of different items. [First half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

Both could generate a mixed bag of precipitation, and these would be carrying more abundant moisture all the way from the Gulf of Mexico.

Still, elevating rosters from Contenders has proven a mixed bag of results in the past.

Awards season is never not a mixed bag, but the 2021 Golden Globe nominations landed with a particular thud on Wednesday.

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Today’s storm brings a mixed bag of precipitation starting this afternoon and continuing tonight.

Contextual links in featured snippets, however, may be more of a mixed bag than first impressions would lead us to believe.

Russianoff says that after 16 years of Straphangers Campaign rankings, the subway remains a “mixed bag.”

Plus, his remake history is a mixed bag, with the solid True Grit and the atrocious Oldboy.

But, as was maybe to be expected, the film itself is a bit of a mixed bag.

Of course, other recent royal pageants and spectacles have been something of a mixed bag, economically speaking.

It's a mixed bag of reviews for the new controversial dark comedy starring two former Disney princesses.

That was when I collected that extraordinary mixed bag of information which I was wondering yesterday whether to believe or not.

Naturally, in a mixed bag such as this, one can't complain if the quality of the contents varies.

The others a mixed bag of whoever was close enough to be pulled in on this crash assignment.

Later in the day I heard the Turk had got a larger mixed bag than I have stated.

But with a mixed bag of men, I had to grab leadership quick or be relegated to nowhere.

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