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handbags

Speech parts

1. handbags - Noun

2. handbags - Interjection

Meaning

plural of handbag

(UK, slang) An insignificant fight or argument.

handbags

(Britain, slang) Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.
Person A: Not another cheeseburger, Marcia?
Person B: What's it to you?
Person A: Well, you're fat enough as it is.
Person B: You can talk!
Person C: Ooh - handbags ladies!

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I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat. Ingrid Newkirk

Girls handbags have enough to make a survival kit for Antarctica. Chetan Bhagat

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it. John B. Keane

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans. Maria Sharapova

I love accessories. I'm a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags. Petra Stunt

I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft. Marc Jacobs

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