an often unexpected assortment of various things, people, or ideas:
The concert was a mixed bag of works from three centuries.
Origin
1935-40
Examples from the web for mixed bag
The results: a mixed bag, but more positive than negative.
Consequently, it's a mixed bag of cultural influences.
In regards to linking specific weather events to global warming it is a mixed bag.
Reactions to today's announcement were a mixed bag of elation and frustration.
It's a mixed bag of stories for the rest of us though.
About half believe health care reform was a mixed bag.
The latest installment of the free performance series is a mixed bag, stylistically speaking.
The results are a mixed bag for the organisms tested.
My parents were such a couple, and in the hair-genetics-sweepstakes department, it left me with a somewhat mixed bag.
The results of state elections are a mixed bag for colleges.
British Dictionary definitions for mixed bag
mixed bag
noun
1.
(informal) something composed of diverse elements, characteristics, people, etc
Idioms and Phrases with mixed bag
mixed bag
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 ]