good old days en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Blend of good old + old days.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) A period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.
Well, the good old days may not return / And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn
1991, “Learning to Fly”, in Into the Great Wide Open, performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."
2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:In the good old days we could go to the gasworks and buy coke.
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Synonyms
golden days · golden age · heyday
Translations (9)
sv gamla goda tiden (the past, seen as a time when things were better) · af goeie ou dae (the past, seen as a time when things were better) · fr bon vieux temps (the past, seen as a time when things were better) · es año catapum (the past, seen as a time when things were better) · fi vanhat hyvät ajat (the past, seen as a time when things were better) · ar الزَّمَن الجَمِيل (the past, seen as a time when things were better) · ru ста́рые до́брые времена́ (the past, seen as a time when things were better) · hu régi szép idők (the past, seen as a time when things were better) · pl stare, dobre czasy (the past, seen as a time when things were better)