beer and skittles
Americannoun
noun
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Trump Dumped: Things aren’t all beer and skittles for The Donald, however.
From US News
Howard: Stipulate, as the lawyers say, that dealing with authors is not all beer and skittles, whatever skittles are, and further that there are some literary figures, who shall go unnamed here, who are really terrible people.
From Slate
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
Nor are beer and skittles unadulterated the lot of the undergraduate either--whatever the impression that his sisters and cousins may derive from the gaieties of the Eights and 'Commem.'
From Project Gutenberg
He was supposed in after years to have said to his friends that he could drink wine if he liked because his devotees were made to believe that his throat was so holy that it changed to water on touching it—and he added that “being a god was not all beer and skittles!”
From Project Gutenberg
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