skittles and beer

skittles and beer pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of beer and skittles
   • 1865, Anthony Trollope, Miss Mackenzie:

     She was denying herself skittles and beer, and putting up with tea and an old aunt, because she preferred the proprieties of life to its pleasures.

   • 2002, Bertrand M. Patenaude, The Big Show in Bololand:

     The men of the ARA were fond of repeating chief Cyril Quinn's line that life in the Russian mission was not all "skittles and beer."

   • 2012, Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography:

     It just comes to you that everything isn't corn flakes and skittles and beer.

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