beer and skittles

Definitions

Fun times; pleasure and leisure.

UK, idiomatic, plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Being a soldier's wife isn't all beer and skittles.”

“His plight reveals a truth that's often obscured by the envy of newspaper readers; that it's not all beer and skittles in restaurant-critic land⟳.”

“Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar. "It hasn't all been beer and skittles," he says dryly.”

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