to handbag无情地对待；麻木地对待

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

To treat a person，idea，etc．，ruthlessly or insensitively，especially for a woman politician to do so．The origin of the term，recorded in the O．E．D．，is former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the handbag she carried，which became“an often—noted symbol of her swaggeringpower when she was prime minister，”according to one news article．

指无情地或麻木地对待人、想法等，尤其像女政治家那样。根据《牛津英语辞典》，该词出自前英国首相Margaret Thatcher(1925－)和她所携带的手提包。据一篇新闻报道说，该手提包“在她任首相期间成了她趾高气扬的权利的显著象征”。