then and now
Before and after
Then and now contrasts past and present states, usually to highlight change or continuity: Look at these photos of the neighborhood, then and now.
The phrase often introduces comparisons showing how things have evolved: Then and now, the fundamental challenges remain the same.
A then-and-now piece juxtaposes earlier and current versions of something.
- nowadaysIn this era
- pastTime already gone
- back in the dayIn times past
- good old daysIdealized past era
- hereafterLife after death
memory · looking back · yesteryear · present · formerly · contrast · comparison · side by side · retrospect · transformation · before and after · wrinkle · dust · generational differences · time capsule · diary · old school · post-pandemic
- contrastsopposites, antithesis, polarity, dichotomy, duality
then and nowright now
At the present moment
just then · this instant · at that moment · momentarily · in a flash
then and nowtimeless
Unaffected by eras
unchanging · immutable · static · constant · permanent
then and nowfrom now on
Beginning at present
henceforth · going forward · in the future · never · at no time