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be all beer and skittles

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not be all beer and skittles

  (British & Australian old-fashioned)

if a situation or activity is not all beer and skittles, it has unpleasant parts as well as pleasant ones It's not all beer and skittles, this job. It's hard work.

See also: all, and, beer, skittle