tuck-shop

"Well, sir," says I, "like you, I wouldn't trust the Nana as far as the tuck-shop."

Fiancée 2010

In absence of proper control and check on the manufacture and sale of spurious goods, seven children fell ill after consuming stale sweets from a local tuck-shop in Kashmir village.

7 Kashmiri children fall sick after consuming sweets, one dies 2008

My father financed the bulk and my mother helped by organising a variety of fund-raisers: she held raffles and put on a movie evening at school, while I worked in the tuck-shop selling sweets.

An Autobiography Heyns, Penny & Lemke, Gary 2002

UCT students, damaged at least 12 cars and raided a tuck-shop on campus.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

"Well, sir," says I, "like you, I wouldn't trust the Nana as far as the tuck-shop."

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

"Well, sir," says I, "like you, I wouldn't trust the Nana as far as the tuck-shop."

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

Meanwhile, Plunger and Moncrief minor were thrown into a state of great excitement by finding letters awaiting them at the adjacent tuck-shop.

The Hero of Garside School

It is pleasant to picture the German General Staff laboriously ploughing through reports of football-matches, juvenile poems and letters to the Editor complaining of the rise in prices at the tuck-shop, in order to discover that Second-Lieutenant Blank, of the Umptieth Battery, R.F.A., is stationed in Mesopotamia, and therefrom to deduce the present distribution of the British Army.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

"The khaki-clad boys were as merry as a party of undergraduates celebrating some joyous event at the college tuck-shop."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 28, 1917 Various

Gordon, of course, had to be fairly quiet in the tuck-shop.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939