Those were the days In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "those were the days", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Jimmy Hung calendar 2022-03-27 05:03

Meaning of Those were the days (redirected from Those were the days! )

Synonyms:

date back to , the good old days , the annals of something

Those were the days! spoken language

Used to describe that a particular period of time in the past was better than the present time

When I was a kid, my family usually spent our summers on the beautiful white sand beaches. Those were the days!

Do you remember when cookies used to cost 40 cents? Those were the days!

Do you remember when we were young and madly in love?. Ah, those were the days!

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