--- Tavia wrote:
I suspect that the "handbag" business may be some
sort of
drag queen slang, picked up from her research on
that topic.
And on handbags, as far as I'm aware, the terminology started in a certain ex-Prime Minister of this country ....
In football circles "handbags" describes a scrap where no real damage was done. For example if two players exchange ineffectual punches before being pulled apart by their team mates. The assumption being that women cannot fight.
Not an assumption I share, I hasten to add for Leia's benefit !
On topic reference: The altercation between Avon and Tarrant on the Flight Deck in "Sarcophagus" was a definite case of handbags.
Stephen.
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