Idiom
memory lane
Meaning
An imaginary path along which one can take a nostalgic or sentimental journey through one's memories of the past.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Looking at these old photos takes me down memory lane.”
“We spent the whole evening walking down memory lane while looking at our childhood scrapbooks.”
“The old neighborhood had changed significantly, yet every corner still invited him to take a bittersweet stroll down memory lane.”
Examples
simple
“Looking at these old photos takes me down memory lane.”
contextual
“We spent the whole evening walking down memory lane while looking at our childhood scrapbooks.”
complex
“The old neighborhood had changed significantly, yet every corner still invited him to take a bittersweet stroll down memory lane.”
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