A catty squabble.
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- 1980s UK. Jocular derivation of pistols at dawn, replacing pistols with handbags, referring to women hitting each other with handbags during a catfight. The phrase originated in football, and was possibly influenced by good handbagging, in reference to the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and the Monty Python skit “The Batley Townswomens' Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbor”, in which the actors flail at each other with handbags.
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Submitted on September 01, 2009
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Handtaschen im Morgengrauen
bolsos al amanecer
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