better days
Past golden era
Better days refers to a time of greater happiness, prosperity, or success—usually in the past.
Something that has seen better days is worn, damaged, or declining from a former state: That old couch has seen better days.
The phrase can also point hopefully toward the future: Better days are ahead.
- brighterHaving increased luminosity
- hopefulFeeling positive expectation
- looking upImproving or skyward gazing
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- once upon a timeTraditional narrative opening
brighter future · golden · youth · memories · sunshine · tomorrow · comeback · bounce back · recovery · healing · simpler · carefree · optimism · longing · wistful · promising · ahead · past
- encouragementencourage, encouraging, praises, hang in there, supports
- golden daysgolden age, golden era, golden period, golden years, good times
- nostalgianostalgia, nostalgic, memories, memory, remember
- optimismoptimism, hope, positive thinking, positivity, hopeful
- washed-uphas-been, over the hill, past prime, played out, finished
better dayshard times
Period of difficulty
dark days · tough times · bad times · lean times · rough patch
better daysdownward spiral
Self-reinforcing deterioration
decline and fall · days of reckoning · the fall · descent · deterioration
better, days, best, day, daily, betterment, daylight, daytime