beer and skittles
(chiefly, UK, idiomatic) times; pleasure and leisure.
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(chiefly, UK, idiomatic) times; pleasure and leisure.
Well, well, we must bide our time. Life isn't all beer and skittles—but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.
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