liquorice allsorts

Or lic·o·rice all·sorts

[awl-sawrts]

plural noun

Chiefly British.

1. variously shaped licorice or licorice-centered, sugarcoated candies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of liquorice allsorts¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

There's a sweet shop full of old-fashioned jars of liquorice allsorts, a petrol pump beside the post office and union jack bunting across the tea shop.

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She compares London's architecture a to a "pack of liquorice allsorts" with all the buildings "trying to be such different shapes and sizes".

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At Prep School in those days, a parcel of tuck was sent once a week by anxious mothers to their ravenous little sons, and an average tuck-box would probably contain, at almost any time, half a home-made currant cake, a packet of squashed-fly biscuits, a couple of oranges, an apple, a banana, a pot of strawberry jam or Marmite, a bar of chocolate, a bag of Liquorice Allsorts and a tin of Bassett’s lemonade powder.

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The closest Apo came to a practical exercise was being sent to buy a bag of Liquorice Allsorts from a sweet shop that, when she finally managed to remember and pronounce the words, turned out not to sell them.

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Trinkets in the Ed Sheeran range include a "beans on toast" pendant, Marmite jar earrings, a Coca-Cola-inspired bracelet and numerous other bracelets styled on liquorice allsorts, which you will be pleased to hear now come on strengthened wire following some intervention from Suffolk county council public protection directorate and trading standards.

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