bucket and spade

Definitions

1. A child’s toy, consisting of a (usually plastic) bucket and spade, used for building simple sandcastles at the beach.
2. Denoting traditional seaside leisure activities.
   attributive

Equivalents

Examples

“And as a marker of the Edwardians, both embody the pleasure principle and have⟳ (in my view⟳) a certain bucket-n-spade frivolity to them.”

“the bucket and spade brigade”

“People aren’t going on bucket-and-spade holidays any more.”

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