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
But from this it must not be supposed that "peace-time trench warfare" is all beer and skittles.
From Life in a Tank by Richard Haigh
My grandfather was a farmer; my uncle was a farmer; my cousin who married the heiress was a gentleman farmer; my cousin who fell in love with beer and skittles was a farm labourer.
From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by A.W. Drayson
"My dear girl, don't you realize that this thing isn't all beer and skittles?"
From A Woman Named Smith by Marie Conway Oemler
Not that it was all beer and skittles even then.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Lord Edward Gleichen
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