Handbag vs Sandbag - What's the difference?
handbag | sandbag |
(mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
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, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.}}
(uncountable) An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
(British, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of ).
a bag, filled with sand, that can be used to weigh something down, to make a defensive wall against flooding etc, or as a weapon
To construct a wall of sandbags (around something).
To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
To deceive someone by pretending to be weak, or (in cards) to have a weak hand.
To pretend to drink early on so that as the night draws on one can drink everyone "under the table".
