41.   Schottenheimer, in the third year of a five-year contract, will be left holding the bag.

42.   Should the economy take a sudden downward turn, the issuers of junk debt would have trouble repaying their debt and investors could be left holding the bag.

43.   Should the economy or interest rates swing against them, banks could be left holding the bag.

44.   Stockholders and depositors were left holding the bag, and Wettermark was never caught.

45.   That leaves Congress holding the bag.

46.   That would leave them holding the bag because Pennsylvania requires insurers to contribute to an insolvency fund to pay claims for competitors that fail.

47.   That may leave them holding the bag because Pennsylvania requires insurers to contribute to an insolvency fund to pay claims for competitors that fail, the competing companies said.

48.   The Blues are left holding the bag.

49.   The deal eventually left the U.S. government holding the bag when Nigeria failed to repay the U.S. government loan approved by the Bush administration to pay for the pumps.

50.   The markets tanked, big business took their money and ran, and, as usual, the little guy was left holding the bag.