good old days

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From good old and old days.

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good old days pl (plural only)

  1. A period of time in the distant past when things were better or fondly remembered.
    In the good old days we could go to the gasworks and buy coke.
    • 1991, “Learning to Fly”, in Into the Great Wide Open, performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:
      Well, the good old days may not return / And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn

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