life after (something)

life after (something)

An ordinary, day-to-day life after some exceptional, unusual, or momentous event or achievement. It can be hard to believe that there is life after the loss of a loved one, but things do carry on. After spending my whole life training for the Olympics, life after the games proved to be very strange.
See also: after, life
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • everything tastes of porridge
  • just another day at the office
  • fight fires
  • hands-on
  • day to day
  • day-to-day
  • not (one's) day
  • not one's day, this is
  • not someone's day
  • from day to day