beer and skittles
Americannoun
noun
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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
You don't want everything to be high culture; you want beer and skittles and trashy delights as well as brilliant news reporting, avant-garde theater, and shocking sculpture.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
The second consisted of young men, who, owning nothing, had the same to lose; who had only heard of fighting, and consequently imagined that war was all beer and skittles.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Life is not, I assure you, all beer and skittles for the disembodied.”
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
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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