lost years
Time you squandered
Lost years are a period of someone's life perceived as wasted, unproductive, or spent in circumstances that prevented growth or fulfillment.
The phrase often refers to time lost to addiction, imprisonment, illness, or simply directionless living: He's trying to make up for the lost years of his twenties.
In some religious traditions, the lost years of Jesus refers to the period between his childhood and the start of his ministry, unrecorded in scripture.
- wastedUsed without good result
- down the drainIrretrievably lost or ruined
- forgottenNo longer recalled
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- youthState of being immature
mid-life crisis · regret · dark period · nostalgia · amnesia · memory gap · blank · blank slate · void · wandering · squandered · recovery · addiction · prison · coma · exile · limbo · haze
- Shakespeare studiesKing Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice
- Shakespeare mysterieshidden messages
- years
- OdysseyOdysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Ithaca, Homer
- Shakespeare biographyStratford, Anne Hathaway, Globe Theatre, birthplace, marriage
- Shakespeare AuthorshipFrancis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, doubters, co-authorship, documentary evidence
lost yearsgolden years
Later life stage
formative years · glory days · heyday · best years · prime years
lost yearsprime years
Period of peak vitality
prime of life · golden age · halcyon days · prime time · formative years
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