Idiom
piping times
Meaning
A pleasant era.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Those were the piping times of our youth.”
“We often look back at the piping times of the nineties when the economy was strong and life felt easy.”
“The elderly historian wrote fondly of the piping times before the war, when peace and prosperity defined the daily lives of the citizens.”
Examples
simple
“Those were the piping times of our youth.”
contextual
“We often look back at the piping times of the nineties when the economy was strong and life felt easy.”
complex
“The elderly historian wrote fondly of the piping times before the war, when peace and prosperity defined the daily lives of the citizens.”
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