sandboy

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A boy who sells sand

Up and down the street not a child was to be seen. A sandboy with a donkey cart was the sole human arrangement in it.

A proverbially happy or jolly person

Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy.

a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'
{i} (British) young sand peddler, young boy selling sand at a seashore resort
happy as a sandboy
extremely happy
sandboy
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