bloom of youth

bloom of youth

The most enjoyable and/or successful time of one's youth, likened to the bloom of a flower being its most prominent and beautiful moment. I have a great fondness for that age, when I was in the bloom of youth.
See also: bloom, of, youth
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a good trip
  • good trip
  • good in bed
  • throw a wet blanket over (something)
  • throw a wet blanket over something
  • GIB
  • a night out
  • be out on the town
  • paint the town
  • paint the town (red)
References in periodicals archive
But you are still there after the bloom of youth has faded.
Motivating moms on the web
The bloom of youth Is still upon your cheek But when you look in the mirror It's grey hairs you seek Your eyes are still A lovely blue, Whatever happened To the rest of you?
readers' Poem
Those in their 60s still carried the bloom of youth on their skins.
Master of illusion; Angus McBean was the doyen of theatrical photographers. Richard Edmonds focuses on a new book about him
Published in 1967, Al-Sabban's first divan was, "Fi Rabiya'a Al-'Aumr" ("In the Bloom of Youth").
Faces & Traces - Influential Hadrami historian and national poet, Abdulqader Al-Sabban (Culture)
However, now it is, thanks largely to 1970's 'glam rock' musicians, who in the wild bloom of youth (and regardless of--if not in spite of--their male gender) sported such accoutrements as glittery makeup, outrageous hairstyles, shiny spandex trousers, rhinestones, and sparkly platform shoes.
Peanut butter and glam
As shy nature revealed her new wares, my wife, still touched by the bloom of youth, was in the bedroom choosing a suitable seasonal top for our grand tour of the village shop.
You know, you're looking very paunchy and stooped these days
Finally, there was Kent, ABT's senior ballerina, who cast a spell of eternal springtime over Symphonie Concertante, like Aurora in the first bloom of youth. See www.abt.org.
American Ballet Theatre
'The expression of his countenance', he wrote, 'acquired a peculiar charm when his look dwelt for a time, with the most lively pleasure, on a fair girl, whose eyes beamed with the most unalloyed enjoyment of the fresh bloom of youth, and dazzling beauty'.
An eye for an Adonis: in the December 1975 issue, Denys Sutton celebrated the life of G.F. Waagen, the anglophile director of the Berlin Museum and author of Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854-57
"The bloom of youth is a must-have for lips and cheeks and this combination will always leave you looking fresh as a daisy.
Shimmer into the summer with a bit of verve
'The bloom of youth is a must-have for lips and cheeks, and this combination will always leave you looking fresh as a daisy.
Get Katherine's rosy glow
In fact, in one report, she was identified as 28 years old, and her square, heavy physique and dark skin were used to suggest that she was threatening and contemptible, clearly outside the protections that accrued naturally to white girls in "the bloom of youth." In Hampton, the local paper was quick to publish a black-bordered picture of her victim, a small, delicate white woman from a prominent local family, who was a widow and the mother of five.
A killing tradition: Lee Boyd Malvo will be tried in a state with a long history of executing minors
A gentleman not in the first bloom of youth was tempted to share a belly dancer's carpet.
Countless wonders of the World Cup
Sadly, she died: bloom of youth. "Liquid tumor," she christened it--leukemia.
Plants and ghosts
While there is no future to their relationship--Big John dismisses a slightly older boy whose bloom of youth has begun to fade--Cuesta presents his cautionary tale as a coming-of-age for Howie, whose ultimate sexual orientation is left ambiguous.
Boys to men
"The metallic shine given off by gold and silver is good for older skin because it brings back the bloom of youth."
Here comes the shimmer; `The metallic shine given off by gold and silver is good for older skin because it brings back the bloom of youth'