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skittles and beer en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only) Alternative form of beer and skittles.
    • It just comes to you that everything isn't corn flakes and skittles and beer. 2012, Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography:
    • 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." 2002, Bertrand M. Patenaude, The Big Show in Bololand:
    • 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. 1865, Anthony Trollope, Miss Mackenzie: