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 Beer.Beer aux Mouches, 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Beer and Skittles.
 
Life is not all beer and skittles, i.e. not all eating, drinking, and play; not all pleasure; not all harmony and love.   1
       
“Sport like life, and life like sport,
Isn’t all skittles and beer.”
 


 Beer.Beer aux Mouches, 

 
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