skittles and beer

A form of beer and skittles — Fun times; pleasure and leisure.

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Meanings

nounskittles and beer pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative 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
    2 more examples

    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

    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
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Chicago

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