Handkerchief“The committee was at a loss to know whom next to throw the handkerchief to ” (The Times). The meaning is that the committee did not know whom they were to ask next to make a speech for them: and the allusion is to the game called in Norfolk “Stir up the dumplings,” and by girls “Kiss in the ring.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Handkerchief from Infoplease:
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