Meaning of handbagful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as a handbag will hold.

Examples

“One morning, when I had been only two years in the service, news came that Mr. Comrie had been found dead in his library, and that about a handbagful of gems was missing.”

“Then, Friday morning, Mr. Gumming and I, with three handbagsful, took the early train⟳, prepared to do all honor to the man who was a very great patron of Buddhism and is now reverenced as one of the Shinto deities. […] The first day, there was not very much of a crowd, though we managed to get⟳ rid⟳ of two handbagsful of the tracts, but the second day, Saturday, things were certainly lively.”

““I’m fucking hot,” says Sandra Bernhard in this month’s issue⟳ of Vanity Fair, as she poses in ostrich features and several handbagsful of costume jewellery for celebrity photographer Michel Comte.”

“Cue handbagsful of oh-so-unfunny cross dressing jokes, triple-entendres and more screeching at Windsor Safari Park⟳.”

“On top of that I picked a handbagful of nettles in the gardens outside the ruined buildings, elegantly plucking them using the fishnet gloves I saved from my air-raid gear.”

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