Cup and ball

a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup.

O that I were a child to play with toys. Fix my whole soul upon a cup and ball. Milman.

— Cup and can, familiar companions; the can being the large vessel out of which the cup is filled, and thus the two being constantly associated.— To be in one's cups, to be drunk.