sandboy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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You'd think I'd have had enough of it by now, but as long as the band is cooking and the music is rocking and the audience is laughing, I'm happy as a sandboy.
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2013
You'll get into it by-and-by, you see if you don't, and be as jolly as a sandboy.
From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.
I'm all right and as jolly as a sandboy.
From Red Money by Hume, Fergus
The decision once made, I was happy as a sandboy.
From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William
They were so bitter about Britain and all her works that I gathered they were getting pretty panicky, and that made me as jolly as a sandboy.
From Greenmantle by Buchan, John
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