glory days

glory days

The most successful time that someone or something has experienced; a past period of better times. My uncle used to play professional baseball, but he suffered a serious injury, and now just likes to relive the glory days of his career. Disco's glory days are far behind us, thank goodness. Back in the glory days, we could sell this place out four nights in a row.
See also: days, glory
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • Fanny's your aunt
  • expatiate
  • expatiate on
  • expatiate on (someone or something)
  • uncle
  • Uncle!
  • cried all the way to the bank, he/she
  • expostulate
  • expostulate about
  • expostulate on (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
The stage is a little high, but with the seats removed The Music Hall reverted to its glory days, hosting a mighty rock band, just as it regularly did in the 1970s.
KARACHI -- Junooni FC and Glory Days have qualified for Leisure Leagues Karachi Intra-City Championship after finishing first and second respectively in the eight-team Leisure Leagues Season 5 held at Karachi United Football Stadium.
LUTON manager Nathan Jones reckons the "glory days" are returning to Kenilworth Road.
Melissa Fraterrigo; GLORY DAYS; University of Nebraska Press (Fiction: Literary) 19.95 ISBN: 9781496201324
This year I bought: Catfish And The Bottlemen - The Balcony (white vinyl); Little Mix - Glory Days (neon pink vinyl); Prince - Little Red Corvette / 1999 (7" picture disc); The Temperance Movement - Ziggy Stardust / White Bear (7"); and Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 - Cross the Road (7" yellow vinyl).
Summary: Rows of green tents lined the northeast corner of Beirut's hippodrome this week for the five-day street festival "Beirut's Glory Days Are Back," an event that celebrates the golden days of '50s Lebanon.
'We are eager to bring back the glory days of Philippine volleyball,' said Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas' Pete Cayco.
Punters love reminiscing about their "Glory Days" as Springsteen would call them and my Eclipse glory day came seven years ago with Sea The Stars.
JAMES Haskell welcomed a return to the glory days at Wasps as Jimmy Gopperth's last-minute conversion got his side into a Euro semi-final.
Bringing back Ritz glory days AWARD-winning vocal entertainer Chris King is scheduled to appear in a special three hour charity fund raising show at Kings Heath's Fletchers Bar on Sunday, May 10 to commemorate the glory days of the old Ritz Ballroom on nearby York Road.
HE-H--E FORMER Pretenders R Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde has released her first solo album after more than 30 years in the music business, but those expecting a return to the glory days may be sorely disappointed.
These were still the glory days of the church and perhaps in our strength we felt we didn't need a union.
Johannesburg, Dec 19 (ANI): The Australian media has hailed their home team for humbling old enemy England in the Ashes, saying that Australia has 'urn-ed' their victory and that their glory days are back.
Dubai: New Al Nasr coach Ivan Jovanovic has said he hopes to bring back the Dubai club's glory days.
GLORY DAYS: glory days at BRADFORD legend Robbie Hunter-Paul has admitted the news the Bulls are on the verge of going out of business is both 'sad and frightening'.