something that you say which means life was better at the time in the past that you are talking about.

We had no money but we were young and madly in love. Oh, those were the days!

• be cut to the bone
• be damned
• be damned if do and damned if don't
• be damned if do and damned if you don't
• be damned if you do and damned if don't
• be damned if you do and damned if you don't
• be dead and buried
• be dead from the neck up
• be dead from the waist down
• be dead in the water
• be dead meat
• be dead on feet
• be dead on your feet
• be dead to the world
• be department
• be done in
• be done like a dinner
• be done like a dog's dinner
• be done to a turn
• be done to death
• be down in the dumps
• be down in the mouth
• be down on like a ton of bricks
• be down on luck
• be down on someone like a ton of bricks