英语词汇beer and skittles的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

beer and skittles. Mainly a British tavern game of ninepin in which a wooden ball or disk is used to knock down the pins, skittles takes its name from the Scandinavian skutill, “shuttle.” This game, similar to shuffleboard, has been played since the early 17th century in taverns, where beer and skittles became an expression for a relaxed, laid-back lifestyle in which people want no more from life, and no less, than their beer and a game of skittles. Life sometimes gives more, of course, and frequently gives less.

词汇	beer and skittles
词源	beer and skittles. Mainly a British tavern game of ninepin in which a wooden ball or disk is used to knock down the pins, skittles takes its name from the Scandinavian skutill, “shuttle.” This game, similar to shuffleboard, has been played since the early 17th century in taverns, where beer and skittles became an expression for a relaxed, laid-back lifestyle in which people want no more from life, and no less, than their beer and a game of skittles. Life sometimes gives more, of course, and frequently gives less.
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