hold-all

It is not clear what Mr. Borthwick meant here by the hold-all term “took.”

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Bits and pieces, odds and ends, this and that — whilst pottering about in my flat yesterday morning a single hold-all word for these vague but necessary collective terms, with special application in the kitchen, popped into my head: manavalums.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

When she bent over her capacious hold-all and rummaged around in it, he glimpsed some kind of hideous milking contraption, a plastic bottle attached to a suction cap, that made him turn aside in faint disgust.

More Exercises « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

When she bent over her capacious hold-all and rummaged around in it, he glimpsed some kind of hideous milking contraption, a plastic bottle attached to a suction cap, that made him turn aside in faint disgust.

2009 April « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Bits and pieces, odds and ends, this and that — whilst pottering about in my flat yesterday morning a single hold-all word for these vague but necessary collective terms, with special application in the kitchen, popped into my head: manavalums.

Manavalums 2009

The effect is that of a slightly withered, tatty, Miss Havisham-esque hold-all.

When It Comes to Style, It's In the Bag Tina Gaudoin 2011

A hitchhiker, a tall thin fair-haired youth looking not much above twenty, wearing faded jeans and an old leather jacket and carrying a few extra clothes in a canvas hold-all.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

He remembered Johnnie Duke putting his hold-all on the floor behind the front seats, and he remembered him leaning over to pick it up.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

An omlette, though, is an equally generous hold-all for food bits that need uniting.

Archive 2009-09-01 Annemarie 2009

An omlette, though, is an equally generous hold-all for food bits that need uniting.

Everything-But-the-Kitchen-Sink Spanish Tortilla Annemarie 2009