Handbags vs Satchel - What's the difference?
handbags | satchel |
An insignificant fight or argument.
* 2011 , Daniel Sperling,
(British, slang) Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.
A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
* "Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls," he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel , which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.
As nouns the difference between handbags and satchel
is that handbags is plural of lang=en while satchel is a bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.As an interjection handbags
is said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.handbags
English
Noun
(head)Ant McPartlin: 'Pub scuffle was just handbags', Digital Spy
- "It was just a scuffle in a pub, a bit of… handbags. Nine times out of ten, people are nice to us."
Interjection
(en interjection)- 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!