liquorice allsorts

or lic·o·rice all·sorts

[ awl-sawrts ]

plural noun

, Chiefly British.

1. variously shaped licorice or licorice-centered, sugarcoated candies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of liquorice allsorts¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

There's a sweet shop full of old-fashioned jars of liquorice allsorts, a petrol pump beside the post office and union jack bunting across the tea shop.

From BBC

There's a sweet shop full of old-fashioned jars of liquorice allsorts, a petrol pump beside the post office and union jack bunting across the tea shop.

From BBC

She compares London's architecture a to a "pack of liquorice allsorts" with all the buildings "trying to be such different shapes and sizes".

From BBC

At Prep School in those days, a parcel of tuck was sent once a week by anxious mothers to their ravenous little sons, and an average tuck-box would probably contain, at almost any time, half a home-made currant cake, a packet of squashed-fly biscuits, a couple of oranges, an apple, a banana, a pot of strawberry jam or Marmite, a bar of chocolate, a bag of Liquorice Allsorts and a tin of Bassett’s lemonade powder.

From Literature

The closest Apo came to a practical exercise was being sent to buy a bag of Liquorice Allsorts from a sweet shop that, when she finally managed to remember and pronounce the words, turned out not to sell them.

From The Guardian