bandy words

bandy words
Meaning
To argue fervently.
Origin
The Irish game bandy is a ferocious ball game in which the ball is played to and fro with sticks. Earlier, in John Webster's The White Devil, 1612, the term was applied to tennis, or at that date more probably real tennis. 'He had been bandying at tennis'.

Meaning and origin of phrases. 2013.

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