Bag
Bag verb - To obtain (as a goal) through effort.
Usage example: bagged a full fellowship at one of the nation's leading universities
Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Common collocations
| few | bag few | fail few |
Both words in one sentence
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They consistently fail to when used against anyone who isn't on their knees with a bag on their head.
Source: Film / Looper -
Zabo murders the leader of the mercenaries when they fail to recover every last bag from the car.
Source: Comic Book / All-New Ghost Rider - When the attempts to break the bulletproof glass fail, Carol suggests that Rick use the grenade, which she's been holding in her bag.
Source: Chekhovs Gun / Live-Action TV
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Fail and Bag. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bag/fail
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