glory days
Peak of success
Glory days are a remembered period when someone or something was at peak success, fame, or happiness.
The phrase usually carries nostalgia and implies decline since: He spent the evening reminiscing about his glory days as a college quarterback.
Often used with possessive: the team's glory days, her glory days in Hollywood.
- heydayPeriod of peak flourishing
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
- good timesEnjoyable life periods
- zenithPoint straight overhead
- golden yearsLater life stage
nostalgia · remember when · back in the day · pinnacle · triumph · prime · legacy · Bruce Springsteen · high school football · varsity · peak · reminiscence · iconic moments · bygone era · old stomping grounds · flashback · rose-tinted glasses · acme
- aging humorretirement jokes, senior moments, senior moment, over the hill, old timer
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- memoriesmemories, remember, recollections, childhood memory, childhood memories
- golden daysgolden age, golden era, golden period, golden years, good times
- peak momentspeak, pinnacle, apex, zenith, acme
- golden erasgolden age, heyday, peak, prime, pinnacle
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Period of gloom
hard times · bad times · decline · rock bottom · nadir
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