English-Dutch translations for handbag

• handtas
  Die handtas mag dan weg zijn, de verlaging van de bijdrage waar het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Duitsland aanspraak op maken is er nog steeds. Well, the handbag has gone but the rebate and the claim for rebate remain from the UK, and from Germany.
  We weten nog goed hoe mevrouw Thatcher met haar handtas op tafel sloeg en zei: "Ik wil mijn geld terug!" . We all remember that handbag that Mrs Thatcher wielded when she banged the table and said: ' I want my money back' .
• tasje

Definition of handbag

• A small bag used by women for carrying various small personal items
• An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals
• Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism . Originally used literally to describe the action of British female police officers , these policewomen would carry a handbag containing a short police-issue truncheon, and when apprehending criminals, rather than slowing down to remove the truncheon from the bag, the female officers would simply swing their handbags, using the weight of the bag as a legitimate weapon.