sandboy

How To Use sandboy In A Sentence

• I was happy as a sandboy — beautiful wife, beautiful children, house, secure job, good social life — then, wham, the wife hits me between the eyes with the muscled actor from next door who's been shafting her for months. Disordered Minds
• I mean, Dad is already tied up and --- ' `Happy as a sandboy ,' Dilys agreed. TICKLED PINK
• A couple of kids in a few years and she'll be happy as a sandboy. Two women
• These ‘sandboys’ were paid partly in ale, and were usually half-cut or merry: hence ‘happy’.
• These ‘sandboys’ were paid partly in ale, and were usually half-cut or merry: hence ‘happy’.
• He is jolly as a sandboy, he is happier than a king, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917
• Perhaps we should ignore Iain and file the word chav with the likes of sandboy, gyp, toerag as common words of possibly rather offensive origins. Dale's Academy of Political Correction: Ban Word 'Toff'
• Forty — he supposed — with three children and fourteen hundred things to attend to every day; shingled, and cheerful as a sandboy. Swan Song
• ‘Of course I am; — as jolly as a sandboy,’ he said. The Last Chronicle of Barset
• They were so bitter about Britain and all her works that I gathered they were getting pretty panicky, and that made me as jolly as a sandboy. Greenmantle