handbags at ten paces n. a verbal spat, usually between athletes on the field of play. Editorial Note: Probably related to any number of Monty Python sketches which have the actors dressed in drag, battling each other with handbags, such as in...
mama put n.— «All around the adjoining streets…market officials, colonial clerks gather in twos and threes savouring local delicacies at mama put joints littering the streets.» —“150 Years On—Memories of Slavery Re-Echoed in...