hand-to-fist

Updated: May 12, 2025

We shall feast like kings anon; here is to be swingeing doings; we have a wedding in the house; here, drink and cheer up; pull away. While these two were at it hand-to-fist, Basche, seeing all his people in the hall in their proper equipage, sends for the vicar.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4