beer and skittles
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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But after a thorough assessment of its technical requirements it was deemed too difficult to pull off in the beer and skittles world of the Fringe.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2014
One should put personal pettinesses on one side�life isn't beer and skittles, even to a duke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Life isn't all beer and skittles,—but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.
From Tom Brown's School Day's by Hughes, Thomas
"My dear girl, don't you realize that this thing isn't all beer and skittles?"
From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway
What he saw then had led him to believe, he said, that the lot of one who preserves the boots of the public from mud is not all beer and skittles.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 by Various
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