LekhoriLekhoriAn insignificant fight or argument.
2011, Daniel Sperling, 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."
Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.
Person A: Not another cheeseburger, Marcia?
From handbag + -s; in sense “fight”, clipping of handbags at dawn, handbags at ten paces (1980s).
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