Handbag Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• At first hand
• Bag a bargain
• Bag and baggage
• Bag lady
• Bag of bones
• Bag of tricks
• Bite your hand off
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• Body bag
• Bound hand and foot
• Brown bag lunch
• Business at hand
• Cap in hand
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Dab hand at
• Dirt bag
• Doggy bag
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Douche bag
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Fold your hand
• Force his hand
• Free hand
• Gas bag
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Give a hand
• Go cap in hand
• Got to hand it to you
• Half in the bag
• Hand a line
• Hand in glove
• Hand in hand
• Hand in your notice
• Hand it on a plate
• Hand it over
• Hand job
• Hand me down
• Hand me downs
• Hand over
• Hand over fist
• Hand picked
• Hand to mouth
• Hand's turn
• Handbags at ten paces
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in
• Have it in hand
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Helping hand
• Hold the purse strings
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• In the palm of your hand
• It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
• It's in the bag
• It's not my bag
• Keep your hand in
• Know like the back of your hand
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• Let the cat out of the bag
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Mixed bag
• Nickel bag
• Off hand
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Right hand man
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Show your hand
• Sleight of hand
• Strap on the feed bag
• Strengthen your hand
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk to the hand
• The answer is at hand
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The matter in hand
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The public purse
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• Try your hand
• Upper hand
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whip hand
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)