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piping times en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (archaic, idiomatic, plural, plural-only) A pleasant era.
    • One of the current melodrama uses on the hoardings a four-sheet poster showing the picture of a motherly old woman with a baby in her arms. She is saying: "Well, I guess the country will be saved without me for awhile. I'll look after baby." That's about the attitude of the nursers of business in these piping times of politics. 1900, Fame, page 472:

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