(chiefly, UK, idiomatic) Fun times; pleasure and leisure.
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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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1857, Thomas Hughes, chapter [/S%3Aen%3ATom+Brown%27s+School+Days+%286th+ed%29%2FChapter+2 2], in Tom Brown's School Days:
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Being a soldier's wife isn't all beer and skittles.
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1911, Anthony Hope, chapter 22, in Mrs. Maxon Protests, page 259:
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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.
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2012 March 24, John Walsh, “The perils of reviewing restaurants”, in The Independent[1]:
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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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2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 41: