"sandbag" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone deliberately gives a false impression of their capabilities, such as "The candidate sandbagged the debate by understating his qualifications". You can also use it to describe a bag of sand, such as "The floodwaters breached the sandbag wall".
I can guess what the sandbag thief and the leaflet man think of me – and, for that matter, all the others who live around here.
A "sandbag" was a device to gain time in the hope that a more acceptable company, a "white knight", would try to take over.
The Fed's sandbag strategy will help ward off disaster, but it won't shore up a sagging economy.
YOU might call it the sandbag approach to central banking.
But it is a meagre sandbag against the rising waters of unemployment.
The next day Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem deputy prime minister, said that the government was as determined to improve social mobility as it was to fix the deficit.Already that trade-off has revealed a deep division within the Conservative Party which threatens to sandbag a big part of the fairness agenda.
In another, leering American soldiers are seen pointing and giving a thumbs-up as a young Iraqi, naked except for a sandbag over his head, is made to masturbate.
Mark Wilson, its chief executive, likes to compare the historical firemen to his yellow-vested army of employees who knocked on doors and built sandbag fortifications to help save houses during floods a year ago.
But armies of donors, consultants and development experts have been determined to fight, for the sake of those who survive on the river's edge.Prospects for the sandbag campaign are looking up.
Royal Marines building sandbag defences in the area were this morning drafted in to assist with the evacuation of residents in the village of Moorland, after more residents were warned to leave their homes overnight.
The COBRA 'conference call' held on Boxing Day is a world away from the 24-year-old Troop Leader fresh out of Sandhurst trying to find the words to inspire his young soldiers to carry on through the night filling sandbag after sandbag in the wet and cold.
