Law of the Playground

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You're hard, where's your handbag?

Original ID   : 897
Created On    : 2002-12-16
Last Modified : 2005-05-01


Used when someone demonstrated a fierce temper, or threatened someone, and eventually for no real reason at all.

After the victim had acted hard or tried to be tough in some way, a chorus of people would shout ‘Oooooh, you’re hard, where’s your handbag?’, and then run away doing the John Inman limp wrist thing.

Harry N