handbagging

• “Yes, there is no question that Thatcher did hold out for the British rebate, famously in popular myth, going to Brussels and "handbagging" the opposition.”

  The "handbag" ploy

• “The force of the Iron Lady is also shown in the "handbagging”

  Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

• “At home, the U.K. prime minister has been hailed in some quarters as a political genius who has stood up to European bullies, delivering a Thatcherite handbagging to Franco-German efforts to destroy the City of London.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Needed: Another EU Crisis Summit

• “It was David Cameron's toughest test to date, explaining to the Commons why he had gone far, far further than any previous prime minister in handbagging the European Union.”

  The Guardian: The Eurosceptics have taken over the asylum | Simon Hoggart's sketch

• “I hope that the highest bidder knows that if he's into handbagging, he's got a weapon with quite a track record.”

  The Guardian: Lady Thatcher's handbag fetches £25,000 at charity auction

• “After a handbagging from the Chancellery in Berlin, though, Sarkozy changed his tune, and declared that: "It would be a funny idea to mutualise the debt so that France and Germany would have to pay for the debt of others without having control over it.”

  The Huffington Post: David Miles: Time for Last-Minute Merkel to End Her Euro Brinkmanship

• “Gays2Win and take on W2W - let the handbagging begin”

  Women to Win ( however useless?)

• “Perhaps I should start Gays2Win and take on W2W - let the handbagging begin!”

  Women to Win ( however useless?)

• “I now have the episode of Auntie Annabel handbagging Jack McConnell on my Tartan Hero blog.”

  The Art of the Putdown No 94

• “In spite of all the petty handbagging about oysters and suchlike, it's undeniable that the Tories are undergoing an impressive renaissance.”

  The New Look Tories

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