NOT ALL BEER-AND-SKITTLES, phr. (common).—Not altogether pleasant, or couleur de rose: a tap room simile: cf. OATMEAL.

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  c. 1840.  MANSFIELD, School-Life at Winchester College, 138. Football wasn’t all BEER AND SKITTLES to the Fags.

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  1889.  Pall Mall Gazette, 13 Aug. 6. Prince George of Wales is ‘learning his profession,’ and finds it is not all BEER AND SKITTLES.

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