handbagging

Yes, there is no question that Thatcher did hold out for the British rebate, famously in popular myth, going to Brussels and "handbagging" the opposition.

The "handbag" ploy Richard 2004

The force of the Iron Lady is also shown in the "handbagging"

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After a handbagging from the Chancellery in Berlin, though, Sarkozy changed his tune, and declared that: "It would be a funny idea to mutualise the debt so that France and Germany would have to pay for the debt of others without having control over it."

David Miles: Time for Last-Minute Merkel to End Her Euro Brinkmanship David Miles 2012

I hope that the highest bidder knows that if he's into handbagging, he's got a weapon with quite a track record.

Lady Thatcher's handbag fetches £25,000 at charity auction 2011

After a handbagging from the Chancellery in Berlin, though, Sarkozy changed his tune, and declared that: "It would be a funny idea to mutualise the debt so that France and Germany would have to pay for the debt of others without having control over it."

David Miles: Time for Last-Minute Merkel to End Her Euro Brinkmanship David Miles 2012

After a handbagging from the Chancellery in Berlin, though, Sarkozy changed his tune, and declared that: "It would be a funny idea to mutualise the debt so that France and Germany would have to pay for the debt of others without having control over it."

David Miles: Time for Last-Minute Merkel to End Her Euro Brinkmanship David Miles 2012

It was David Cameron's toughest test to date, explaining to the Commons why he had gone far, far further than any previous prime minister in handbagging the European Union.

The Eurosceptics have taken over the asylum | Simon Hoggart's sketch 2011

I hope that the highest bidder knows that if he's into handbagging, he's got a weapon with quite a track record.

Lady Thatcher's handbag fetches £25,000 at charity auction 2011

At home, the U.K. prime minister has been hailed in some quarters as a political genius who has stood up to European bullies, delivering a Thatcherite handbagging to Franco-German efforts to destroy the City of London.

Needed: Another EU Crisis Summit Simon Nixon 2011

After a handbagging from the Chancellery in Berlin, though, Sarkozy changed his tune, and declared that: "It would be a funny idea to mutualise the debt so that France and Germany would have to pay for the debt of others without having control over it."

David Miles: Time for Last-Minute Merkel to End Her Euro Brinkmanship David Miles 2012